If an employer allows an employee to take a company vehicle home, does the employer have to pay for travel time from home to the job site and vice versa?
A. No, as long as the employee performs no work duties until reaching the first work site. This is considered normal home-to-work/work-to-home travel, and the time needn´t be compensated. Q. If I require my employee to stop at one location at the beginning of the work day to receive instructions or to pick up tools or a company vehicle before reporting to the actual work site, do I have to pay any of the travel time? A. Yes. The travel from the employee´s home to the first location need not be compensated, since it falls under the portal-to-portal rule. But once the employee arrives at the first required location, the employee is “on the clock” and the subsequent travel time is compensable. Special, One-Day Assignments The “special one-day assignment” rule applies when an employer requires an employee who usually works at one location to report for a day to an alternate work site in a city over 30 miles away.
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