If you’re fired while on a business trip does your now former employer still have to pay for your trip home, or can they just leave you to sort every thing out on your own dime?
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Impossible to answer without knowing the exact states labour laws and the details of the persons contract. However I would think that except in cases of criminal misconduct it would be a PR disaster for a company to do this to an employee.
I would also think that in most jurisdictions the employee would have a good case to sue for reimbursement of the trip home, since it’s a legitimate business expense incurred on the employers behalf.
I don’t think there are any laws covering this matter, but it is customary practice to cover the cost of returning the employee back home.
I had to fire an employee several years ago while we were traveling half way across the country. Told her to gather her things and fly home that day. She would be permitted to go back into the office to gather her personal things upon returning to the home office.
I can’t imagine the employer is not responsible for an actual employee required to take the trip as part of their job.
I would be a little bit suspicious if my employer asked me to take a business trip, but only gave me a one-way ticket.
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Shodan
Good question - how did Comey get back to Washington? 
I assume he had a round-trip ticket on a commercial airline. But what if he flew out on a government plane?
I saw footage of him departing LAX on a private jet. I don’t know how he got to LA in the first place, or the details of whose jet it was for the return trip.
Now I’m curious. Maybe the details cannot be shared, but could you describe the general nature of the cause for dismissal?
It seems like most of the time one would be working on building a case for dismissal for some months prior to the act, so this awkward situation would be avoided.
Did some unpardonable act like theft or fraud suddenly happen?
I’ve never worked in the corporate world, but I did play piano on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean for four months, and they were very clear that if you committed a terminal offense (which included going into a passenger’s cabin), you’d basically be dropped off in the middle of the ocean with your bags packed and have to find your own way home.
Not hard to imagine that she might have been caught sleeping with someone from a rival company, or got drunk and sripped off on a table at a conference. I could think of several things that an employee could do and be told to pack their bags and head home.
When I was a Fleet manager, it was not uncommon for salesmen to be fired for all kinds of reasons (usually dishonesty). The usual routine was to call them into the office, which might be many miles from their home, and take their company car keys off them first. This was to ensure, as happened on one occasion, that they did not drive off in the car. After the formalities were completed, they would be handed enough cash to cover ther return home by public transport.
This was different to my sister’s experience when acting as a liquidator. She would call a board meeting and go round and collect the keys and company credit cards. How the directors of the failed company got home was their own concern.
I believe that they have the power to do the same thing to passengers who break the rules as well. Not in the “middle of the ocean”, but at the next port.
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We had a conference/junket for our clients at a resort. At the last minute (Thurs afternoon) person B was asked to go because person A couldn’t (sick?).
While you might think a weekend at a resort is nice, finding out at the last minute you need to ‘work’ that weekend & can’t do whatever you had planned might not go over so well with some folks. Person B obviously fell into this category at the opening/Friday cocktail hour. The good news is that he managed to turn his head at the last minute when he was talking to the SVP of our largest client so he only threw up in front of her & not on her.
Yes, he had consumed too many. No, he wasn’t normally like that. Yes, he was fired for it & sent home from said conference, probably with a bad hangover.
I realize that every state has different laws and every company has different rules, so I can only speak to what I have learned and had to follow. The old days of looking at someone and saying the words “You’re fired”, doesn’t cut it anymore. I can put someone on “immediate administrative leave” for up to 30 days. That gives me the time to fill out an immense amount of paperwork on why I am firing someone. Even though we are an at will employer, the paperwork to fire someone still takes time. If I had someone on a business trip that did something that warranted an immediate firing, I would still have to put them on administrative leave, bring them home, fill out the paperwork and then call them in to fire them.
Perhaps it has something to do with embarrassing one’s employer in front of a client that leads to immediate dismissal.
We had a young employee fire off a nasty tweet about one of our clients…what a high maintenance pain in the ass they were, that sort of thing.
She tagged the client in the Tweet. :smack:
Got called into the big boss’s office the next morning and out the door she went.
Yes, they extend that extra courtesy to paying passengers. 
I think it depends a lot on what kind of job, what industry, what company, etc.
I have seen people fire and left stranded far from home before.
Not exactly a shocker in the music profession, but i have also seen it happen to drivers, various kinds of construction workers. I had it happen to me once, when i was a kid.
I got a job with a catalog merchandise company, they took a bunch of us kids to some town in kentucky south of louisville to go door to door and try to sell this junk.
Well lets just say that people wont buy junk unless you lie about it, so i didn’t sell much.
Got fired, booted out of the hotel room, did not get fed, and had to find my own way home
Depending on how small the business is, I’d say that still frequently cuts it just fine.
Restaurants can still bounce your ass with no notice. I’ve seen it happen. Either that or your hours mysteriously dry up.
does middle of the ocean mean you get a life raft?