MA000020  PR740868
FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DETERMINATION


Fair Work Act 2009

s.157—variation of modern award

Expense-related allowances 2022
(AM2022/12)

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION GENERAL ON-SITE AWARD 2020
[MA000020]

Building, metal and civil construction industries

JUSTICE ROSS, PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT CATANZARITI
COMMISSIONER HAMPTON

MELBOURNE, 28 JUNE 2022

Expense-related allowances.

A. Pursuant to s.157 of the Fair Work Act 2009, the above award is varied as follows:

1. By deleting the table appearing in clause 21.1(a) and inserting the following:

Classification

Tool allowance
$ per week

Artificial stoneworker, carpenter and/or joiner, carpenter-diver, carver, bridge and wharf carpenter, floor sander, letter cutter, marble and slate worker, stonemason or tilelayer

34.87

Caster, fixer, floorlayer specialist or plasterer

28.84

Refractory bricklayer or bricklayer

24.75

Roof tiler, slate-ridger or roof fixer, tradespersons in the metals and engineering construction sector

18.26

Signwriter, painter or glazier

8.37

2. By deleting the amount “$15.96” appearing in clause 21.2(a) and inserting “$16.37”.

3. By deleting the amount “$15.96” appearing in clause 21.2(c) and inserting “$16.37”.

4. By deleting the amount “$1924” appearing in clause 21.3(b) and inserting “$2022”.

5. By deleting the amount “$76.68” appearing in clause 25.3(a)(i) and inserting “$80.19”.

6. By deleting the amounts “$207.96” and “$29.68” appearing in clause 25.4(b) and inserting “$225.07” and “$32.12” respectively.

7. By deleting the amount “$15.96” appearing in clause 25.6(a)(i) and inserting “$16.37”.

8. By deleting the amount “$21.35” appearing in clause 25.6(b)(i) and inserting “$24.27”.

9. By deleting the amount “$36.19” appearing in clause 25.6(e)(i) and inserting “$41.13”.

10. By deleting the amount “$17.88” appearing in clause 26.1(a) and inserting “$20.32”.

11. By deleting the amount “$0.80” appearing in clause 26.2(b)(ii) and inserting “$0.91”.

12. By deleting the amount “$0.48” appearing in clause 26.4(b)(ii) and inserting “$0.55”.

13. By deleting the table appearing in clause B.2.1 and inserting the following:

Allowance

Clause

$

Payable

Tool allowance—artificial stoneworker, carpenter and/or joiner, carpenter-diver, carver, bridge and wharf carpenter, floor sander, letter cutter, marble and slate worker, stonemason or tilelayer*

21.1(a)

34.87

per week

Tool allowance—caster, fixer, floorlayer specialist or plasterer*

21.1(a)

28.84

per week

Tool allowance—refractory bricklayer or bricklayer*

21.1(a)

24.75

per week

Tool allowance—roof tiler, slate-ridger or roof fixer, tradespersons in the metals and engineering construction sector*

21.1(a)

18.26

per week

Tool allowance—signwriter, painter or glazier*

21.1(a)

8.37

per week

Meal allowance—all employees—overtime of at least one and a half hours

21.2(a)

16.37

per meal

Meal allowance—operator employee—after completion of each 4 hours’ overtime

21.2(c)

16.37

per meal

Compensation for clothes and tools

21.3(b)

2022

maximum

Living away from home allowance—Distant work—Entitlement

25.3(a)(i)

80.19

per day

Camping allowance—per complete week

25.4(b)

225.07

per week

Camping allowance—broken parts of the week

25.4(b)

32.12

per day

Meal allowance—forward journey

25.6(a)(i)

16.37

per meal

Return journey—additional for daily hire employees

25.6(b)(i)

24.27

per journey

Weekend return home

25.6(e)(i)

41.13

per occasion

Fares and travel pattern allowance

26.1(a)

20.32

per day

Travelling between construction sites—employee’s own vehicle

26.2(b)(ii)

0.91

per km

Distant work—employee’s own vehicle

26.4(b)(ii)

0.55

per km

B. This determination comes into operation on 1 July 2022. In accordance with s.165(3) of the Fair Work Act 2009 this determination does not take effect in relation to a particular employee until the start of the employee’s first full pay period that starts on or after 1 July 2022.

PRESIDENT

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