Posted: 11/6/2014 8:04:55 PM EDT
| Got a quick question for the hive figured y'all would know. A friend of mine was recently fired from his job. They requested that tomorrow he return the remainder of their property. Today he turned in all of the department owned equipment such as uniform shirts and gear. However, he was given a uniform allowance to purchase logo shirts and uniform pants. When he left today they indicated that they need all of his uniforms tomorrow. He did not clarify which they meant. His question is, do items that he purchased with his uniform allowance belong to him or the employer? I can't find any help with this through Google searches. |
| Thanks for the reply. All of the issued stuff is returned already without a problem. The allowance was used to purchase things like boots to wear with the uniform and generic blue cargo pants. My thought is he purchased these items out of pocket including extra personal money for better boots. He was then given money on his paycheck as compensation to cover these necessary items. Therefore, his boots should not be property of the department they were a form of compensation. He just doesn't want to see his boots turned in and thrown away if they really are his property, especially if he had to pay the difference between the allowance and what they actually cost. |
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I can tell you that when I got a uniform allowance, it was considered income and I paid taxes on it.
When l left the department (retired) I wasn't asked to turn in my uniforms. Only the department issued items. That being said we did have rules about wearing apparel that had the department logo off duty. Again, I didn't have to turn that stuff in but I don't think it would be cool to wear stuff like that around. Boots and stuff like that dont matter. |