This arbitration, like similar lawsuit and arbitrations asserted against other Domino’s stores around the country, alleges that the franchise under-reimbursed the claimant (one of the company’s delivery drivers) for the costs he incurred when he used his car for the company’s purposes, i.e., to make deliveries. Specifically, the claimant claims that the company reimbursed less than $.30 per mile, which was not enough to cover his vehicle expenses. This alleged under-reimbursement can result in a minimum wage or other wage and hour violation.
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Under-reimbursement of Vehicle Expenses
First, the claimant alleges that the company does not properly reimburse for vehicle expenses.
The claimant’s position is that he must be reimbursed at the IRS standard business mileage rate (currently $.625 per mile) when the employer does not collect records of the drivers’ actual expenses and reimburse based on those records.
Even if the company is permitted to reimburse based on an “approximation,” as we expect the respondents will argue, the claimant alleges that the [DOS Pizza] Domino’s stores have failed to “reasonably approximate.”