If an employee provides assistance to an elderly person or person with an illness, injury or disability by driving or accompanying him or her to an errand or appointment, must that time be paid?

Yes. Under the FLSA, travel that is “all in the day’s work” must be compensated. For example, if a domestic service employee drives an elderly person or person with an illness, injury or disability to a doctor’s appointment or to the grocery store, that time is “all in the day’s work” and must be compensated.

October 2018

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