On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:11:38 +0200, Tom Peel
wrote:
>Not quite red-hot news, but as nobody else has commented- a German court
>has ruled (11th April) that frequent flyer bonus miles accrued on
>company business trips are company property. An employee can only use
>them for private flights if the company expressly permits him to do so.
Well, this only has relevance in Germany, just as a U.S. court ruling
would only have relevance in the U.S.
>
>In the case in question, a sales director with a LH M&M card had
>accumulated 350,000 bonus miles. In January 2003, his employer insisted
>that the accumulated free miles could only be used for flights on
>company business.
>http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-410947,00.html
>
>T. |