The key to identifying whether travel time during the workday is compensable is determining whether the employees are engaged in travel as part of the employer's principal activity or for the employer's convenience. Whether time spent traveling is paid work time for nonexempt employees depends on the type of travel involved. Travel time that is work time is subject to both the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Portal-to-Portal Act provides that traveling to and from a jobsite at the beginning and end of the workday is not work time. Other travel time associated with an individual's performance of his or her job is paid work time.
Firms Let Employees Surf for Business Travel
More businesses are allowing their employees to circumvent the corporate travel agent, giving them permission to plan business trips online, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Companies Aim to Safeguard Against SARS
Amid heightened concern over severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has killed at least 79 people, companies are taking steps to protect workers from the respiratory disease, Bloomberg News reports.
