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Compensable Travel Time: What Two New DOL Opinion Letters Mean for Employers
What employers should know about key developments this week:
DOL Opinion Letter FLSA2026-9: The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) evaluated several real-world scenarios—such as an employee working from home in the morning to avoid traffic before commuting in later—and concluded that voluntary midday travel between home and the office qualifies as "normal" or "ordinary" commuting, and need not be compensated, even where the employee performs work at both locations.
DOL Opinion Letter FLSA2026-10: In a second letter, the WHD distinguished between commute-related…
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