New U.S. DOL Opinion Letters Provide Guidance on Compensability of Travel Time and Break Time

By: Smith Anderson.

On April 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued two opinion letters that should help employers determine when they must pay for an employee’s travel time and break time.

The opinion letters issued this month are the first opinion letters issued since 2010 when the Obama administration discontinued the practice of issuing opinion letters in favor of issuing Administrator’s Interpretations to address more general issues. Read more.