This Law Firm Publication by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. discusses Sarrazin v. Coastal, Inc., in which the Connecticut Supreme Court denied the plaintiff, a plumbing foreman, overtime compensation for his commuting time to and from job sites and his home, even though he used a company vehicle and carried his employer’s tools. The court held that the Portal-to-Portal Act provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) preempted the Connecticut Department of Labor’s regulations on travel time, and under the employer-friendly federal standard, the plaintiff's travel time was not compensable because he failed to show that driving the company vehicle and carrying company tools imposed a more than minimal burden on him. The court noted that as long as a commute in a company vehicle is within the normal commuting area for the employer’s business, and use of the vehicle is subject to an agreement between the employee and the employer, whether oral or written, travel time is not compensable.