[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR785.37]

[Page 697]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 785_HOURS WORKED--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart C_Application of Principles
 
Sec. 785.37  Home to work on special one-day assignment in another city.

    A problem arises when an employee who regularly works at a fixed 
location in one city is given a special 1-day work assignment in another 
city. For example, an employee who works in Washington, DC, with regular 
working hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. may be given a special assignment in 
New York City, with instructions to leave Washington at 8 a.m. He 
arrives in New York at 12 noon, ready for work. The special assignment 
is completed at 3 p.m., and the employee arrives back in Washington at 7 
p.m. Such travel cannot be regarded as ordinary home-to-work travel 
occasioned merely by the fact of employment. It was performed for the 
employer's benefit and at his special request to meet the needs of the 
particular and unusual assignment. It would thus qualify as an integral 
part of the ``principal'' activity which the employee was hired to 
perform on the workday in question; it is like travel involved in an 
emergency call (described in Sec. 785.36), or like travel that is all 
in the day's work (see Sec. 785.38). All the time involved, however, 
need not be counted. Since, except for the special assignment, the 
employee would have had to report to his regular work site, the travel 
between his home and the railroad depot may be deducted, it being in the 
``home-to-work'' category. Also, of course, the usual meal time would be 
deductible.