Idle, Travel, Commuting, and Waiting Time

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1. When does waiting time count as working time under Book III, Rule I, Section 5?
2. Does lack of physical or mental exertion by itself make all required duty time noncompensable?
3. Is an ordinary duty-free trip between home and the usual workplace generally the same as performing assigned driving du…
4. A covered dispatcher must remain at the designated desk waiting for the next call and cannot use the interval freely. T…
5. During the workday, a technician is directed to drive company equipment from one assigned service site to another. Is t…
6. A company driver is required to pick up coworkers before the normal shift and transport them to a remote field office, …
7. A repair worker experiences two gaps. During the first he must remain by the machine because restart is imminent. Durin…
8. Distinguish compensable waiting from an interval genuinely available for personal use.
9. Explain the compensability distinction between ordinary commuting and the mandatory transport work in Rada.
10. A company measures hours worked solely by minutes of visible production and excludes required standby. Evaluate.
11. Must an employee physically leave the employer’s premises for a genuinely relieved interval to be non-working time?
12. Can on-call time very near the employer’s premises be working time where the required proximity prevents effective pers…