The Office of Personnel Management on Monday issued new guidance to help agencies and federal employees who either telework or work remotely understand when they’re eligible to be paid for their time traveling to or from traditional work sites.
“As the federal workplace landscape changes, agencies must continue to correctly apply the rules concerning hours of work for all federal employees, including those who are teleworkers and remote workers,” wrote Veronica Hinton, OPM’s associate director for employee services in a memo to agency HR directors. “While federal employees may have access to workplace flexibilities with respect to the location where work is performed and/or the hours during which work is performed, the crediting of time as hours of work is based on applicable rules under Title 5 and/or the Fair Labor Standards Act.”
As a general matter, under Title 5, time spent on official travel outside of an employee’s official duty station are considered hours of work—that is, paid—if performed during the employee’s normal work hours, while travel time between different work locations are paid as long as those locations are both within an employee’s duty station. An employee’s duty station is typically calculated as the area within a 50-mile radius of their work site.
And under the Fair Labor Standards Act, travel time is paid when an employee is required to travel during their regular work hours or if they meet special conditions, such as performing work while...
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