Can my former employer take out airfare fees and other charges out of my pay for jobs that will be done by a different employee?
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Can my former employer take out airfare fees and other charges out of my pay for jobs that will be done by a different employee?
I am a photographer who worked without a contract with an agency. I quit while on a trip and now the owner wants me to pay for my flight ticket and also pay her next photographer for any reshoots of the models that I have already photographed. If I take this to the local magistrate is it possible for me to win?
Asked on September 12, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Pennsylvania
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If you quit while on a trip. the employer can certainly recover the airfare and other travel costs for any travel you had after you quit--for example, for your return flight.
If the timing and way you quit meant that the shoot was unsucessfu, or was not completed, or that they will have to send someone out for a reshoot, they can recover your airfare and other travel costs out to the location and/or the cost to send someone else there for a re-shoot: basically, they can recover any costs incurred because of your deliberate action in quitting, or any amounts "wasted" due to you quitting mid-trip.
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