AN120435 – Private Hospital Industry Nurses' (State) Award
(i) A student nurse or trainee enrolled nurse sitting for an examination prescribed by the Board and required to travel from the home centre to an examination centre shall be paid by the employer all fares necessarily incurred in such travelling, and if it is reasonably necessary for each student nurse or trainee enrolled nurse to sleep away from such home centre the employer shall pay in addition to the fares the cost of reasonable accommodation and meals. "Home Centre" means the town in which is situated the hospital at which such student nurse or trainee enrolled nurse is employed.
(ii) An employee required to travel in the performance of duty shall be paid all reasonable out of pocket expenses (including fares).
(iii)
(a) An employee who is engaged for an indefinite period and who remains in the employment for at least six months shall be reimbursed forward fares from the place of engagement; provided that the distance of normal travel there from to the employment exceeds 40 kilometres.
(b) An employee who is engaged for an indefinite period and who is dismissed within six months for any reason other than misconduct or inefficiency shall be reimbursed forward fares from the place of engagement; provided that the distance of normal travel there from to the employment exceeds 40 kilometres; and shall also be reimbursed return fares to such place of engagement or the employee's immediate destination, whichever is the cheaper.
(iv) An employee who is engaged for a definite period and who completed the period of engagement or who is dismissed before completing such period for any reason other than misconduct or inefficiency shall be reimbursed also return fares to such place of engagement or to the employee's immediate destination, whichever is the cheaper.
(v) Subclauses (iii) and (iv) of this clause shall not apply to, trainee enrolled nurses or to nurses travelling to a hospital for post-graduate training.
(vi) Fares within the meaning of this clause shall include only fares incurred in respect to travel within New South Wales.
(vii) An employee who claims reimbursement of fares, pursuant to this clause, shall furnish to the employer, if so required, satisfactory proof that they have not received from another employer reimbursement in respect of those fares.
