Can my employer legally not pay for my travel time hours if I was asked to report to a different job site?

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Can my employer legally not pay for my travel time hours if I was asked to report to a different job site?

Employees are required to put in a full day on site in addition to traveling up to 60 miles each way. They require people to carpool and will pay mileage to driver but not travel time.

Asked on February 3, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Rhode Island

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 8 years ago | Contributor

It depends on whether you went first to your regular site, then to the other site, or straight to the job site.
If you went straight to the site (then straight back home), you don't have to be paid for your time: employers don't need to pay for the commute to/from work, even if the employee is going to an alternative location, so long as that alternative is within communtable distance (and 60 miles or 1 to 1.5 hours or so is commutable; in fact, where I live, that's a standard commute). If you went first to your regular site, however, all travel done after you first reported to work would have to be paid.


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