AN120154 – Concrete Pipe and Concrete Products Factories Consolidated (State) Award
(i) Country work shall mean employment at a place which requires the employee to be away from their usual place of residence.
(ii) All employees, sent by the employer from the city to the country or from one country centre to another country centre or from a country centre to the city, shall have their fares provided by the employer and, on remaining until the completion of the job or until the special work which they were sent to perform is completed and no other work is provided by the employer, shall be entitled to fares back to the place of engagement.
(iii) Any person, selected for work and sent by an employer or an employer's agent, including National Service Officer, a Government Employment Bureau or a private employment agency, from the city to the country or from one country centre to another or from a country centre to the city, shall have necessary fares provided by the employer.
(iv)
(a) Where employees are sent from one place to another as prescribed by this clause, the employer shall provide reasonable board and lodging or shall pay an allowance as prescribed in Item 13 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates, per week of seven days, but such allowance shall not be wages.
(b) In the case of broken parts of a week the allowance shall be per night, as prescribed in Item 14 of Table 2.
(v) Time occupied in travelling to and from country work shall be paid for at ordinary rates in addition to wages otherwise earned; provided that no employee shall be paid more than an ordinary day's wages for any time not exceeding 24 hours spent in travelling.
