I just started with a company and my training class is flown out to CA on Monday for a Tuesday start. The company is claiming that the flight from VA to CA is not work time and is unpaid. Doesn’t seem right. Any help? Thanks
Is my VA based company required to pay me for airline travel time to CA?
Monday, March 15th, 2010 / steinapetra
Category: Airline Travel
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As far as the airline ticket, it is based on mutual agreement if the company will pay or the expense will be shared.
As far as the time spent sitting on the plane, that’s just a part of life where you relax, read a magazine, take a nap, ect. No, an employer is not ordinarily expected to pay you for your time sitting on the plane to the training facility. You should be paid for the time spent in your training classes however.
travel to a job and home from it is not work time except for when the travel is to a site that is not your normal work-site.
travel time that is part of your normal work hours and is required is work time as well. what you have described here does not seem to meet those standards.
they are paying for the trip and all expenses involved i imagine. you should be paid for all class time once you are in California. the travel time outside of the normal training time would not be considered work hours according to the US department of labor.
“As an enforcement policy, the Wage and Hour Division will not consider as hours worked that time spent in travel away from home outside of the employee’s regularly scheduled hours of work as a passenger on an airplane, train, boat bus or automobile. “