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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
^^The op said he was not working the weekend,that is clear.
Usually on a trip that is more then one week where you do not work the weekend, you either fly back and forth or you hang in the city your working in.
I use this time to explore around, its a non-issue. Lets see, exploring around in New Orleans or San Francisco is not such a bad thing. There is no way you should get paid for that, unless you are working it. I've worked weekend as well on the road and that's a different story, then its just like working a weekend in Calgary and you should get compensated
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As I hinted at earlier, I know some people that have a variety of arrangements with their company. A friend of mine, who is an engineer with an oil company in Texas, recently went on a business trip to the plant of a separate company in Nevada to troubleshoot some issue. The trip was over a week in length and spanned over the weekend. He was paid his day rate each day he was gone, including 2 weekend days in which he did not work. The arrangements here are a little different though, as the plant in question is a separate company and undoubtedly paid my friend's company a bulk fee to send the engineer over. They all probably decided in advance that they would not be working on the weekend, but my friend was still paid either way by his company. His hotel and per diem were covered for the weekend, and he even flew his wife over for the weekend for a couple nights in Vegas- this was on his dime of course, but his per diem covered the Vegas hotel, no problem with his employer as the hotel was under the $200 a night hotel allowance. Obviously a company contracting out the services to another company is a lot different than an organization sending out one of their employees to conduct work in the field at one of their own stations or plants etc...
Anyway, I don't have any real expectations for time in lieu of, but it is interesting to see what arrangements everyone else has.