[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR785.39]

[Page 653]
 
                             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. 785.39  Travel away from home community.

    Travel that keeps an employee away from home overnight is travel 
away from home. Travel away from home is clearly worktime when it cuts 
across the employee's workday. The employee is simply substituting 
travel for other duties. The time is not only hours worked on regular 
working days during normal working hours but also during the 
corresponding hours on nonworking days. Thus, if an employee regularly 
works from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday through Friday the travel time 
during these hours is worktime on Saturday and Sunday as well as on the 
other days. Regular meal period time is not counted. As an enforcement 
policy the Divisions will not consider as worktime that time spent in 
travel away from home outside of regular working hours as a passenger on 
an airplane, train, boat, bus, or automobile.