travel time

New Tennessee Attorney General's Opinion Opens Door to Wage Claims by Employees Serving Jury Duty

October 17, 2011 16:22

By Jennifer Robinson, Eric Stevens and Rachel Ross As a general rule, the Fair Labor Standards Act does not require an employer to pay an employee’s travel time between home and their regular place of work. However, Tennessee employers should be aware of another travel time issue –...

EMPLOYEES MUST BE PAID FOR ALL WORK DONE BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THEIR SHIFTS

August 26, 2011 15:49

Every employee has a core job comprised of the main duties the employee is hired to perform.  And just about every job has non-core elements that take up time and (often) seem unproductive—organizing or maintaining tools, putting on protective clothing, cleaning or picking up after work,...

Compensation for Travel Time: The Second Circuit Provides Some Clarity

Joseph Dole
August 17, 2011 15:57

The issue of whether to compensate an employee for commuting time can be a difficult one where the employee does not have a single standard work location to which he reports. When the employee’s home base is his home, and he performs work at home each day before he gets on the road, is he...

Employee Travel Out Of The Office: How Must You Pay For It?

Jeffrey C. Freedman
March 29, 2011 16:00

We get questions . . . Recently a client called with this dilemma.  One of its employees, an hourly non-exempt employee, is required to travel during the working day to locations away from the main office.  Sometimes, the employee goes directly to an offsite location from home at the...

HR Question: Should I Be Paid For Travel Time?

Christopher McKinney
March 10, 2010 22:23

 We get a high volume of basic HR-related questions here at the HR Lawyer's Blog.  So many, in fact, that we are sometimes not able to respond to each and ever one of them individually as we would like. So it occurred to us that it might be a good thing to post some of these questions and...