What's the procedure to get reimbursed though you're no longer an employee....?

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I was let go last month and HR told me to email my expenses to them. I did and the Director said in the email that they will process. It's been a month and I have followed up twice but they never respond to my email. The expenses was for my business trip, one week before I was let go.

What should I do? I'm thinking of going after the CFO but I'm afraid HR will give me hard times when somebody calls and verifies my employment. (I'm so close in getting a job offer).
Is there a law that explains this matter?

Why does the company delay the process?

nimslaw@att.net · Answer

There is no specific statute that addresses your situation, it a question of contract law.  Since the agreement between you and the company was that the company is responsible for the expenses of your business trip, that you've been fired doesn't affect their obligation to pay you.

Since you've already emailed HR and got no response, I'd send another email to both HR and the company's legal department, telling them if you don't get paid in some reasonable time (say two weeks), you'll sue them.  The legal department will know that the company doesn't want to hire an attorney to solve this issue.  

If the company isn't big enough to have a legal department, send a copy to the president.

You should never use HR as a job reference, you should use your immediate supervisor.  The HR department pretty much can only confirm the dates that you worked for a company.  Besides, few companies are willing to give anyone a bad review, they don't want to be sued by their former employees.  I advise my clients to only give dates of employment in their written response to reference requests and that if they want to give a good reference they should call the person in addition and give it verbally.

What's the procedure to get reimbursed though you're no longer an employee....?

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