What if an employee experiences an “extended” waiting period?
A. If an employee experiences an unusually long wait prior to his or her initial departure or between actual periods of travel during which the employee is free to rest, sleep, or otherwise use the time for his or her own purposes, the extended waiting time that is outside the employee’s regular working hours is not creditable time in a travel status. An extended waiting period that occurs during an employee’s regular working hours is compensable as part of the employee’s regularly scheduled administrative workweek.
