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.
