AN120684 – Plumbers and Gasfitters (State) Consolidated Award
In lieu of the foregoing clauses 14, Compensation for Travel Patterns and Mobility Requirements of Employees and the Nature of Employment in the Construction Work covered by this Award, and 16, Living Away from Home - Distant Work, the following provisions shall apply to ship's plumbers.
(i) All employees required to travel to a job during working hours shall be paid for such working hours at ordinary rates, also for such ordinary working hours as they may be kept waiting after arrival.
(ii) All employees required to travel during hours outside ordinary working hours shall be paid the ordinary rates for the actual time so travelled; provided that all time spent in travelling on Sundays and holidays shall be paid for at time and a half ordinary rates and that the maximum number of such hours on each outward or homeward journey to be paid for shall be 12 hours.
(iii) On distant work, the employer shall provide reasonable board and lodging or pay an allowance per week of seven days as set out in Item 67 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates, but such allowance shall not be wages. In the case of broken parts of a week occurring at the beginning or end of a period of distant work, the allowance shall be all living expenses actually and reasonably incurred but not exceeding an amount as set out in the said Item 67.
(iv) Employees travelling by boat either interstate or intrastate shall be allowed first-class fare and accommodation.
(v) When travelling by train, first-class accommodation shall be provided and if travelling all night, sleeping berths shall also be provided where available on the day of travel. In addition employees shall be reimbursed the cost of any meals reasonably incurred whilst travelling.
(vi) (a) An employee who works as required during the ordinary hours of work on the working day before and the working day after a weekend and who notifies the employer or his/her representative no later than the Tuesday of each week of his intention to return home at the weekend and who returns home for the weekend, shall be paid an allowance as set out in Item 67 for each occasion.
(b) This subclause shall not apply to an employee who is receiving the amount per week as set out in Item 68 of Table 2 in lieu of board and lodging being provided by his/her employer.
(c) An employee shall be deemed to have returned home at the weekend only if this involves him /her in being absent from his/her accommodation for not less than half the hours between ceasing work in the one week and commencing work in the next week.
