AN140103 – Electrical Contracting Industry Award - State 2003
8.2.1 The following allowances shall apply to employees to compensate then for excess travelling time and fares.
8.2.2 Unless otherwise stated these provisions are in substitution for the existing provisions contained in clause 8.1.
8.2.3 Any employee who is required to travel in their own time to and from their place of work, away from, but within a radius of 30km or 50km as the case may be, from their employer's workshop or recognised place of business where the employee was engaged to commence employment, shall be paid an allowance as follows:
(a) Up to 30km radius $8.92 per day excess fares plus 15 minutes per day excess travelling time at the ordinary rate.
(b) More than 30km radius but less than 50km radius $8.92 per day excess fares plus thirty minutes per day excess travelling time at the ordinary rate.
(c) Any employee who is required to commence and/or finish work on distant work in excess of 50km radius from the employers workshop or recognised place of business shall be entitled to the provisions of clause 8.1 (Country Work). Notwithstanding the definition of Country Work in clause 1.6.(Definitions) the definition is deemed to apply at 50km from the employers workshop or recognised place of business:
Provided that the minimum payment under clause 8.2 shall be that expressed in clause 8.2.3(b) except where employees are required to remain away from home overnight as provided in clause 8.1.4 where the Country Work provisions of clause 8.1.3 shall apply.
8.2.4 On Sundays and Public Holidays the rate for travelling time shall be one and a-half times the ordinary rate.
8.2.5 Where the employer provides a vehicle or transport with suitable safe permanent seating accommodation, free of charge, to and from their place of work the fares provisions in clause 8.2 will not be payable:
Provided the number of persons carried in any vehicle does not exceed the number that vehicle is registered to carry.
8.2.6 Clauses 8.2.3(a),(b) and (c) do not apply to employees who start and finish work at the normal times at the employer's workshop or recognised place of business.
8.2.7 Where an employee is required by their employer to travel to any other job, site or place of work during the course of their employment, they shall be paid all fares necessarily incurred. All time spent on such travel shall be regarded as time worked and paid at the appropriate rate:
Provided that where an employee agrees to use their own vehicle in their employer's interest they shall be paid the following amounts in lieu of fares:
(a) When using their own bicycle - $6.03 per week;
(b) When using their own motorcycle - 31c per km or part thereof;
(c) When using their own motorcycle and sidecar - 37c per km or part thereof;
(d) When using their own motor car:
(i) Up to 1.5 L - 43c per km or part thereof;
(ii) Over 1.5L and up to 2.5L - 45c per km or part thereof;
(iii) Over 2.5L - 52c per km or part thereof.
8.2.8 For the purpose of clause 8.2.3:
(a) Where the employer has no recognised workshop or place of business, or where the employer's workshop or place of business is outside the State, the distance (for the purpose of reckoning fares and travelling time) shall be calculated from the General Post Office, Brisbane, or outside Brisbane, from the principal Post Office of the nearest town.
(b) Where the employer has more than one workshop or recognised place of business in Queensland, the radius of 30 km or 50 km shall apply from the workshop or recognised place of business nearest to the employee's normal place of residence.
(c) A construction site is not deemed to be a workshop or recognised place of business.
