Do you pay for employees gas?

[Jimbo76]

@llaczko

Are these employees or subcontractors?

All employees.

[llaczko]

@Joey C

…You sell the tools to them…

That doesn’t seem like the proper way to treat employees (Yes, I read the part about refunding the money.)

[Jimbo76]

@barbara1taylor

I think that the company has to bear the costs…in that way the employees will be happy and they will at that job for longer

I worked for a company for 13yrs & we used our own vehicles & paid for our own gas. We made 33% on every job, this company has offices in 6 states…most east of Illinois.

[justin]

@Joey C

That’s the way I had it for the last 17yrs working Commercial all over Chicagoland. I know of more than 1 company that does it that way. You get 30-35% of the job, so included in that is a lil gas money. You sell the tools to them & when they quit or get fired you get the tools back & give them their money back(if the equipment is in decent shape). If not, then they don’t get their money back.

That’s totally lame! I imagine they have a huge turnover of employees! Not the way to treat the people who work for you.

[justin]

@Joey C

I worked for a company for 13yrs & we used our own vehicles & paid for our own gas. We made 33% on every job, this company has offices in 6 states…most east of Illinois.

And they all wear red shirts with little fishy on em right?

[Jimbo76]

@justin

And they all wear red shirts with little fishy on em right?

No, I would never work for them or wear their shirts! All they do is store fronts & small buildings. We did lot of high rise, hospitals, etc etc…

[Jimbo76]

@justin

That’s totally lame! I imagine they have a huge turnover of employees! Not the way to treat the people who work for you.

Yea, there was high turnover. But, that was during the summer months when it got busy…so many people say they can do window washing, high rise, etc etc…then you get them out there & they get scared or say this isn’t for them. So, NEXT.

[llaczko]

@Joey C

Yea, there was high turnover. But, that was during the summer months when it got busy…so many people say they can do window washing, high rise, etc etc…then you get them out there & they get scared or say this isn’t for them. So, NEXT.

Sounds as though that is a hiring process and employee screening issue with management.

Kinda like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what falls off and what sticks…

[Juggernaut]

I’m sorry but I hate it when I hear of companys that treat employees like this. They are bottom feeders and don’t care about their employees happiness. They have this mentality that an employee should be happy to have a job. The first real job I had when I was younger, required me to drive my own truck. I was paid $7.00 per day for gas (back when gas was $1.50 per gal), $3 for tolls and $100 every 3 months for maintainence. To me that was more then fair back then for driving your own truck. But if you own the truck, you pay for it. Look at it like this, if you force your employees to pay for gas with the prices they are now, if they quit. Your truck will be sitting in the driveway and making you $0.00 because you were too cheap to pay $60 for a full tank. The truck makes you money, the employees make you money. Don’t be stupid and ruin that. I would love to see UPS make their drivers pay for gas. They would be out of business in 1 month.

[diamondridge]

@Juggernaut

I would love to see UPS make their drivers pay for gas. They would be out of business in 1 month.

+1

[Rudner]

So what do you do if the employee is driving his own vehicle? Make him pay his own gas because it’s his vehicle?

I think the best answer should start with “well that depends”.

It depends on if the person is an employee or a sub. The employee takes the vehicle home at night or drops it off at the office? Can they run personal arrons with it? Are they the ones that fill up, or are you? Are they already compensated for gas in their pay? If an employee is paid $15/hr would it be ok to pay him $20 and ask him to fill up the tank on his own dime? I dont see why not.

I’d suggest setting a weekly or daily budget for them, say up to $50/week. At the end of the week they hand in the gas receipts and are reimbursed up to 50. If they go over its on their own dime and anything under is covered by you.

At the end of the day if your employees are happy with how they are compensated, and your happy, we’re all happy

[llaczko]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut
I would love to see UPS make their drivers pay for gas. They would be out of business in 1 month.

Are UPS drivers paid on commission?

Does commission pay matter where fuel reimbursement is concerned? Depends if it’s built in?

[SUD_CHASER]

We have the same, gas card and put the mileage for that van. It works good. It’s only for that person so what ever van there there driving that card is linked to them. Ifleet.