Employee Travel Pay Explained: Wage & Hour Road Rules for HR

Employee Travel Pay Explained Webinar Recording

Reports coming out of federal and state labor departments speak loud and clear: wage & hour enforcement is stepping up. This recent crackdown gives employers a lot to think about: When is a commute really part of the workday? Which employees are exempt and which ones are nonexempt? What are the rules for meal and break times? How are employees and contractors different?

One pressing question is how to pay employees for travel time. The answer is not simple, and a misstep is bound to be costly. Consider these cases:

• Automobile retailer CarMax was recently sued for failing to pay overtime. The employee claims the company never paid him for the hours he spent traveling each week to and from automotive auctions.
• Workers for a Texas construction company filed a collective lawsuit in claiming their travel time to and from a job site should be paid. The suit against Becon Construction Co., Inc., says employees are required to report to a certain location at a certain time to get on a bus and travel to their worksite. The suit, which includes employees who worked at the job site since February 2008, says workers spend approximately 30 minutes traveling every workday.
• A jury sided with workers for a New Mexico oil well driller who claimed they should have been paid for their commute to a well site because safety meetings were held while riding with a foreman, and they occasionally did other “work” on the way.

Participate in this interactive webinar, and in just 90 minutes, you'll learn everything you need to know to stay in compliance with the latest employee travel time compensation rules:

• Key tests to determine if travel time is work time
• How DOL wage and hour regulations may affect your existing workplace travel pay policies
• Best practices for determining if commuting time or travel during regular work hours qualifies as paid work time
• Whether travel between job sites is compensable under state and federal law
• Common compliance roadblocks to conquer, such as discerning how to compensate for overnight travel and paying employees for time spent at training programs, seminars, and conferences
• Special factors that could change your travel pay obligations, such as employees driving their own vehicles or responding to work-related emergencies
• How laptops and smart phones affect payment for travel
• If and when telecommuters may be entitled to compensation for their travel
• Tips for drafting a legally sound travel pay policy for your organization
• And more... In just 90 minutes, you'll learn everything you need to know to stay in compliance with the latest wage and hour laws affecting employee travel time compensation. Register now for this event risk-free.

This webinar was recorded on Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Employee Travel Pay Explained: Wage & Hour Road Rules for HR

About Your Speaker:

Attorney Mark E. Tabakman is a partner in the nationwide law firm Fox Rothschild, LLP. He advises clients throughout the country on all aspects of labor relations and employment law, as well as the development of corporate employment policies. He has a specialty in wage-hour law, including defending numerous FLSA and state class actions and representing more than 200 clients before the state and federal departments of labor and state and federal courts on issues such as proper payment of overtime, alleged misclassifications of employees as exempt and nonexempt, and what constitutes working time. Also, he publishes and maintains a wage-hour blog to provide the latest information and observations on new developments in wage-hour law. Mr. Tabakman is a frequent guest speaker on employment law issues and has appeared on local and national television programs commenting on workplace issues. He also writes a weekly column on labor and employment issues titled “Making the Law Work.” He graduated from the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and earned his law degree at Rutgers University.