Long-Lost Benefit

NACCAS_VA

CEO promises Employee X free parking as part of a raise in 1988 and he receives it. In 1991 a new CEO takes over and office moves to building where employees must pay for parking. X protests; is told by office manager there is nothing in his file giving him this benefit; but X doesn't check the file himself, protest to CEO or otherwise follow through. Ten years later, X is looking through his personnel file and finds the official salary increase form with former CEO's note that free parking is part of X's salary increase. Must employer pay for X's parking for past 10 years?

Down_the_Middle

I don't think so. Seems to me that once the new CEO arrived and changed the rules about free parking, that this employee would also have been affected by that decision. Certainly the note applies to the '88-'91 period, but I don't think it has any retroactive force for the last 10 years.

bsa

Did he get free parking in '89? I think the '89 review and salary action would have changed the compensation package, unless he continued to receive free parking.

bsa

How long did X receive free parking? Was it a line item on his paycheck? Did his '89 review and salary action change his compensation package?