overtime pay for traveling to distant location
dholloway
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Wondering if anyone can give me some clarity on whether or not an employee is to receive payment for their time on a plane flying between 8am and 5pm on a Saturday or Sunday for a conference. Example would be flying from Anchorage Alaska at 11pm and arriving in New York City at 5pm. Compensable or not?
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Travel Away from Home Community: Travel that keeps an employee away from home overnight is travel away from home. 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. As an enforcement policy the Division will not consider as work time
that time spent in travel away from home outside of regular working hours as a passenger on an airplane, train, boat, bus, or automobile.
Basically if the employee does not usually work on Saturday or Sunday then any travel time during his/her normal work shift would be overtime. If the employee works from 8-5 M-F, then in your scenario of a plan leaving Anchorage at 11pm and arriving the next day at 5pm, the employee would not be paid for the time from 11pm to 8am, but the hours between 8am and 5pm would be compensable.
Does this answer your question?
As a company policy, we consider all travel time as time on the clock. This eliminates anyone feeling that they had to give up any personal time without compensation to travel for the company. Our thinking is they could be at home or at least not at work if they were not traveling for us - so we pay all travel time. Best add - but we do not have many people traveling great distances.
Dutch
Your first post! Welcome to the Forum. :welcome:
Sharon