Travel time is compensable depending on the nature of the travel.
Home-to-work travel. Traveling from home before the regular workday begins and returning home at the end of the workday is ordinary home-to-work travel, and is not considered work time, even when a company vehicle is used. If an employee is required to work at home first and then travel to an office, the travel time is considered work time.
Special one-day assignment in another city. An employee who normally works at a fixed location, but travels to a different city for a work-related assignment and then returns home the same day, is considered working while traveling. The department may deduct the time that the employee would normally spend commuting to the regular work site.
Travel that is all in the day’s work. Time spent traveling by an employee as part of their principal activity, such as travel from job site to job site during the workday, is work time. Home to the first job site is not work time.
Travel away from the home community. Travel that keeps an employee away from home overnight is travel away from home. Travel away from home is work time when it cuts across the employee’s normal workday. The paid time includes not only the hours worked on regular working days during normal working hours but also travel time during corresponding hours on non-working days, and any other hours that an employee actually performs work. The time spent by an employee who travels outside regular working hours as a passenger on public transportation, such as an airplane, train, etc., may be considered work time at the department’s discretion.