And the quote from the corporate policy could be taken to mean the one way trip to the customer's site only, since it does not actually mention the rest of the commute home. And since CA law/rules are very clear that they do not include commutes, at best the employee has an ambiguous policy that the employer is not going to read the same way they are. In the absence of a more clearly worded policy, any judge or ALJ is likely to follow CA law/rules here.
Is this the hill the employee wants to die on?

