How do you transfer them? Are they transferrable? I've always tried
to use the ones accumulated through business travel (as opposed to
ones accumulated through credit card use or personal travel) for
business travel. But I always thought they were non-transferrable
except for some limited charitable causes and within ones immediate
family. I've heard of arrangements where businesses negotiated
deals for corporate travel that included these benefits accruing to
the business, but I always thought individual mileage accounts were
non-transferrable. Otherwise, yeah, I'd say they should belong to the
employer.

Does anyone know more about this?

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query: what about frequent flyer miles that accrue to the passenger even when the ticket is paid for by the employer for business travel?

Dan

<<< sgunz <[log in to unmask]>  3/15  2:14p >>>
There was a much publicised BC case recently where an off duty  police officer
found ? $100,000 in a garbage bin in a park. Not surprisingly, no one came
forward to claim it. The police said he could not keep it under the general rules
that apply in this case because it would harm the reputation of the police etc..
It was litigated (with a bizarre claim being put forward by a claimant who's
lawyer refused to identidy him), and the officer got to keep the money. It was in
the last couple of months.

Sally

Brad Sleeper wrote:

> Jordan,
>
> It would certainly surprise me to find law supporting any claim of interest
> in the prize by the employee.  Assuming from his expense reimbursement that
> his presence at the show and conference was exclusively professional, and
> that he wouldn't have been in a position to receive the ticket and
> resulting prize without his employer's funding and duties, how could the
> employee have any personal interest in any benefit derived from the show?
> The intent of the donor, even if relevant, was to solicit the employer's
> business, not the manager's personal patronage.  If the manager returns the
> gift (and why would he? revenge? if I don't get to keep it I'll send it
> back?), the valid claim may be by the employer for restitution.
>
> I'll await other more law-based reponses, but I have not run across any
> legal (nor do I see any ethical!) support for the employee.
>
> Brad Sleeper
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