The employee gets paid for every minute he is on the clock including travel time. The 30 minutes travel time is just an estimate it can be adjusted if necessary. If it takes longer than 30 minutes then it can be increased. If it only takes the employee 15 minutes of travel time he would still get paid for 30 minutes. I cannot see how they would ever be owed any back pay as they are being paid for every minute they are on the clock. They would not be putting in any travel time for free. These bonus hours are simply extra hours they earn not hours they actually had to work. They could be paid out quarterly or even anually as a bonus if not paid out weekly. The employees current hourly rate of pay would not change with this plan. He would never lose any of his regular pay with this system. This is not peice work.
What's in it for the employer? Happy, motivated employees who are completing jobs on time or in less time and making more money for both the employee and empoyer. Seems to me both parties win with this.
If you don't like the term bonus hours you could call them value points or something like that. The employee could be paid out each quater for how many value points he has earned for the quater.
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