Travel time
The Wage Standards Division is often asked if an employer has to pay their employees for the travel time to a job site. Sometimes this can add thirty minutes to two paid hours to the work day traveling from the employer's shop to the work place. Who gets paid for that travel time to the job site depends on why the employees are taking the ride.
Convenience or need?
If the employee is required to report to the shop in the morning (e.g., attend a safety meeting, load company vehicle, etc.) and then drives/rides the company vehicle to the job site, the employee’s work day begins at the shop and ends when he/she returns back to the shop. If the employee is not required to report to the shop and may go directly from home to the job site, but merely stops at the shop for his/her own convenience of catching a ride and no work is performed at the shop, the employee’s work day begins when the employee reaches the job site, and ends when the employee completes his/her work at the job site.
Public works also.
The application of the paid travel time for general business enterprises also applies to construction companies working on state and county public works under Chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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