Are employers required to pay employees at the regular rate of pay (electrician's wages), or can they pay at a lesser rate for drive time?
(That's assuming the employee makes more than the minimum wage)
If the boss requires the employee to be somewhere at a certain time (eg the shop at 7am) then that is when his work day starts *whatever* it is the boss is requiring him to do there (load material/safety meeting/pick up helper). This follows through for the entirety of the work day including the time to return to the shop if that is what the boss is requiring him to do.
All the middle of the day 'waste' (windshield time, waiting for an inspector, waiting for keys to access a work area, call backs) whatever else may come up the onus is on the boss to utilize their employees time to his best advantage; and if he can't (for whatever reason) then the onus is on him to suck it up and take it.
