[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: 29CFR785.39]



[Page 650]

 

                             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.