jgharston wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I know there are some jobs where you can get your travel expenses
paid, but you don't get wages for sitting on the bus for an hour.

Our miners do, and it isnt a bus, it's a plane most of the time.

They "start work" when they arrive at the airport,
and "finish work" when they leave the airport.

But not the airport at the mine site, so they do
get paid wages for sitting in the plane on the
way to and from work.

Same thing with the offshore oil platforms too, they get
paid for the hour or two in the chopper to the platform.

The airport is the terminal point of their place of work.

They are still getting paid while sitting in the plane instead of in the
bus.