U.S. Department of Labor
FLSA Hours Worked Advisor
The time you spend performing work-related duties and traveling to the job site is probably hours worked, regardless of whose vehicle you are using.
When traveling to the work site, all of the time spent traveling from the beginning of your first work-related duty to the work site would be hours worked. For example, if it normally takes you 30 minutes to travel to the work site, but you have to make a work-related stop, which is 10 minutes from your home, all of the time from that stop until you arrive at the work site is hours worked.
The same would be true of the travel from the work site to home. All of the time from the work site to the point where you finish your last work-related duty would be hours worked. For example, if you are directed by your employer to provide transportation home for other workers, the time you spend taking the employees from the work site to their homes is hours worked. The time you spend going to your own home from that of the last passenger would not be hours worked, but would be ordinary home-to-work travel.
For information about travel which is not home-to-work or work performed while traveling, click on underlined text.
For more information, please contact your local Wage and Hour District Office.
