[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR785.37]



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                             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



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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.