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

Wage & Hour Rules Webinar Recording

Wage and hour litigation and Department of Labor enforcement remain two of the hottest HR challenges. Last year alone, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division received 40,000 complaints, a 15-percent increase from the previous year.

Travel-related issues in particular pose a significant risk for wage & hour claims since travel is an integral part of most everyone’s workday. Unless your workforce is home-based, your employees are commuting to and from the workplace, to and from job sites, and to and from hotels, airports, and conferences when they’re on business trips. Even telecommuters may be entitled to pay for travel time in certain instances.

The trick is to know what type of travel is compensable -- and from what point. Get up-to-date on the latest travel time rules and wage & hour regulations so you can stay in compliance and out of court.

Participate in this interactive webinar, and you'll learn:

• Two key issues you MUST grasp when determining whether travel time is work time
  - Is the travel required by or for the employer’s convenience?
  - Is there a work activity included that makes the time compensable?
• What certain language means in plain English, such as "travel for the convenience of the employer” and “continuous workday rule”
• When home-to-work travel may be compensable and should be considered something more than standard commute time
• If taking work home for safety or privacy reasons renders commuting time compensable
• Pay obligations when an employee leaves work only to return due to an emergency situation
• Whether travel between job sites is compensable
• How to compensate employees when travel takes them away from their home community
• What happens when employees work several days straight and then have consecutive days off with the option to travel home before returning to work
• How employees who go from home to work on a special one-day assignment in another city should be compensated
• When attendance at an out-of-work lecture, training, or conference is not considered working time
• Your options when the employee is offered public transportation but elects to drive their own vehicle
• When “riding time" may still be work time
• The point at which the work-time clock begins to run if you direct an employee to a pick-up spot
• Telecommuter entitlements for travel time pay
• How laptops and smart phones affect payment for travel

In just 90 minutes, you'll learn everything you need to know to stay in compliance with the latest wage & hour laws affecting employee travel time compensation. Register now for this event risk-free.

This webinar was recorded on Thursday, February 9, 2012

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

About Your Speaker:

Attorney Michael G. Petrie practices in the areas of employment litigation and labor and employment counseling at Jorden Burt LLP in Simsbury, Connecticut. He represents employers and management in claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of employment contracts, violation of wage and hour laws, negligence/intentional infliction of emotional distress, and other employment disputes. He frequently presents seminars and writes articles on various labor and employment law topics.