Section 7(e)(2) of the Act provides that the term ``regular rate''
shall not be deemed to include ``payments made for occasional periods
when no work is performed due to vacation, holiday, illness, failure of
the employer to provide sufficient work, or other similar cause;
reasonable payments for traveling expenses, or other expenses, incurred
by an employee in the furtherance of his employer's interests and
properly reimbursable by the employer; and other similar payments to an
employee which are not made as compensation for his hours of employment
* * *.'' However, since such payments are not made as compensation for
the employee's hours worked in any workweek, no
part of such payments can be credited toward overtime compensation due
under the Act.
