Section 6-B1207. TRAVEL ON OFFICIAL TIME

 

1207.1Insofar as practicable, travel during non-duty hours shall not be required of an employee.

 

1207.2When an employee is required to travel outside of his or her regularly scheduled administrative workweek, the employee is to be given overtime compensation in accordance with the conditions for determining “hours of employment” in section 1207.3 of this section.

 

1207.3In determining “hours of employment” for purposes of entitlement to overtime compensation, time spent in travel status away from an employee’s official duty station shall be deemed to be “hours of employment” only when any one (1) or more of the following is true:

 

(a)The travel takes place within the days and hours of the employee’s scheduled tour of duty, including regular overtime work; or

 

(b)If the hours are outside of the employee’s regularly scheduled administrative workweek, is ordered or approved, and meets any of the following conditions:

 

(1)The travel involves the performance of work while traveling;

 

(2)The travel is incidental to travel that involves performance of actual work while traveling;

 

(3)The travel is carried out under such arduous and unusual conditions which make the travel inseparable from work; or

 

(4)The travel results from an event that could not be scheduled or controlled administratively.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 54 DCR 11538(November 30, 2007).