Let’s go a bit further. My 8 hours of sleep is required to do good at work. Should I get paid for that? No,but as long as I am not free to exit my place of employment, per requirement, I should get paid for it. This is bizarro.
“8 hours of sleep”
I hired a part-time guy on an as-needed basis. I had him keep track of his hours (and I did too). His first invoice had the miles and hours to get to my house to do the work. I had never thought of that - paid the first time, told him “that’s not how it works” for the subsequent jobs.
My son uses his car for work (first job) sometimes going from the company to various places running errands. And gets his mileage and tolls comped - and he is on the clock of course.
But he told me he was putting his tolls in to get reimbursed just to drive to work. I told him that was wrong. “But the boss told me to submit any tolls I had.”
“Um - son - I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean the $6 a day just for you to go back and forth to work.”