I live in central Indiana, and am in construction, my employer somtimes sends there employees to other surronding states for projects (5 days a week for one to two months sometimes upwards of 5 months ). My empoyer pays one way travel for anything thirty minutes outside of Indianapolis. They also pay no over time for travel (i.e. I travel 2 1/2 hours each direction in a company vehicle and work a eight hour day at the project, meaning I would be away from my home doing work related duties 65 hours in a work week and am paid striaght time for 50 hours.) what are the laws pertaining to this

My husband was sent from IN to Georgia for a school with his work. He had to leave on a Sunday at noon to get there and also allow time on case he got lost. School started at 8am on Monday morning. His school was completed Tueday at 2pm at which time he left to come home. Work paid him 8 hours regular pay Mon-Thurs, paid for the hotel, rented the car, and gave him $600 in cash to use for food and gas. All remaining cash had to be turned in. I would just think that they would have to pay him for his 14 hours of travel time atleast. Just seems weird to me that here he was away from his family for five days and only got paid for 32 hours.... Does anyone out there know wether or not this is legal? If it isn't legal and they do owe him the money, can he be legally fired for bringing it up with the employer??

Thanks for any help in this!!!

Here is the FLSA regulation for compensable time for nonexempt employees who travel away from their home community overnight. If exempt, no additional compensation is due, ever. If you have questions after reading the regulation, please feel free to post back.
http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ESA/Title_29/Part_785/29CFR785.39.htm