Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida
travel time pay
My employer is a national fire safety company and I am a fire sprinkler inspector.They provide us with company vehicles and we do take them to our homes after our work day is complete.They provide the fuel card,insurance and vehicle fleet maintanence.We are not allowed to use these company vehicles for any personal use at all.I live around 12-15 miles from the office and we are not required to come into the office to punch a time clock before we start or finish the day.We do however go into the office every friday to do our pay roll hand written time sheets and turn all of the completed job reports.We are required to use the telephone to call ashley our company computer for our scedule.We then map out our jobs,make the appointments and go to the first job of the day.They (our employer)say that they do not pay us our hourly wage for the travel time to our first job until we reach 60 miles no matter how much time it took us! And we are told we have to start at 8:00 am and we have to take a one hour lunch break even if i do not want to eat.We are also told we must not leave any job before 5:00 pm even if the job is complete and we are just a presence on site.So we always get paid for 8 hours & were traveling for 4 hours or more.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: travel time pay
The Fair Labor Standards Acts (FLSA), a federal law, reads that all employees under the FLSA must be paid a min. wage for all hours worked. The question in your issue appears to be is traveling to your first worksite working?
You may have a valid claim for unpaid wages if your employer has not been paying you and your co-workers for this travel time. The FLSA defines employ as " to suffer or permit to work." You can argue that traveling from one work site to another is employment.
If you are interested in discussing a possible wage and hour claim in more detail- please feel free to contact my office or email me- [email protected].
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