AN120149 – Commercial Travellers, &C., (State) Award

PART I - LOCAL EMPLOYEES 

9. DEFINITIONS

(i) Local Employees shall mean a commercial traveller who is not required by his/her employer to remain away from his/her usual place of residence for more than fifty-four consecutive hours in any one week of seven days.

(ii) Unless the context otherwise requires, local employees shall include a local probationary traveller.

(iii) Statement of Engagement - In respect of every Sales Representative, Commercial Traveller, Probationary Sales Representative and Probationary Commercial Traveller, within 28 days from the operative date of this award or, where the employment commences after such date, within 14 days from the commencement of the employment, the employer shall provide to each employee a written statement containing the information set out hereunder:-

(a) the remuneration payable;
(b) the locomotion allowance payable;
(c) the rate or, where there is more than one rate, the rates of commission payable;
(d) the conditions and terms on which commission or any part thereof is payable or is not payable;
(e) deductions, if any, which are made or may be made from the commission payable; and
(f) if the employee has a territory, the boundaries or limits of such territory.

(iv) Territory, for the purpose of this award, shall be deemed to include the geographic boundaries or any list of persons, or any combination thereof, from where or from whom the employee is required by his/her employer to solicit or obtain orders.

(v) Local Wholesale Merchandiser means a Wholesale Merchandiser (as defined in clause 6, Meaning and Interpretation) who is not required by his/her employer to remain away from his/her usual place of residence for more than fifty-four consecutive hours in any one week of seven days.