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Traveling for Work

9 November 2022

Employees often ask about traveling for work events or conferences. Sometimes the event or conference starts Monday morning and the employee travels during their off time on the weekend. It is common for the employee and their supervisor to balance the weekend travel time in place of other work time. When the employee travels on their weekend, that often saves the employer money (hotel, meals) and allows them to avoid the less productive time when employees travel on weekdays during the usual work hours. In those situations when the employer won’t work with the employee to balance personal time, work time, work travel time, the employee should know they have the right to not travel on the weekend and could ask the employer to send them on Friday to the conference starting Monday. How the employee travels matters as well. An employee driving a vehicle is considered actively at work and that time counts as work time regardless of when it occurs. It’s when solely a passenger, whether on public transportation or in a private vehicle with others, and not engaged in work or operation of the vehicle during part of the trip, that the issue of work time or personal time comes up. For more information consider the following link: IRS Fringe Benefit Guide

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