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Travel Time. Time spent traveling during normal work hours is considered compensable work time. Time spent in home-to-work travel by an employee in an employer-provided vehicle, or in activities performed by an employee that are incidental to the use of the vehicle for commuting, generally is not "hours worked" and, therefore, does not have to ...
Travel away from home is clearly work time when it cuts across the employee's workday. The time is not only hours worked on regular working days during normal working hours but also during corresponding hours on nonworking days.
WHD. Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay for Direct Care Workers. Travel Time. A worker who travels from home to work and returns to his or her home at the end of the workday is engaged in ordinary home-to-work travel which is a normal incident of employment. Normal travel from home to work and return at the end of the workday is not work time.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations require employers to pay for travel time in some circumstances. Generally, time spent traveling is compensable, unless it is normal home-to-work...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) gives this example: If an employee normally finishes his work on the premises at 5 p.m. and is sent to another job which he finishes at 8 p.m. and is required to return to his employer’s premises arriving at 9 p.m., all of the time is working time.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an opinion letter in response to a company’s questions about travel time pay for a group of hourly employees who repair, inspect and test construction cranes.
Employers are required to pay for all work-related travel time spent by employees throughout the course of the work day. This rule specifically applies to employees who travel as part of...
Overnight travel is considered travel away from home, and is compensable when the travel time occurs during the employee’s normal working hours, even on non-work days – but not travel time that occurs outside the employee’s normal working hours.
The Department of Labor doesn't require reimbursement for travel expenses, but it makes sense to pay employees if you require them to travel. Your business can deduct employee travel expenses as a business expense.
An employee is entitled to compensation for any time taken for round-trip travel between two cities in one day. As per 29 CFR § 785.37, however, the employer may be able to deduct the employee’s regular commuting time from the time spent traveling to the other city.