AN160133 – Foremen (Building Trades) Award 1991

18. - FARES AND TRAVELLING TIME

(1) A foreman required to report directly to the job shall be paid the following allowances to compensate for travel patterns and costs peculiar to the construction industry:

(a) On places of work within a 50 kilometres radius from the General Post Office, Perth, $12.60 per day.

(b) Where an employer's business or branch is situated outside the 50 kilometres radius referred to in (a) and a foreman is engaged for work from that establishment, and is required to report to a job within a 50 kilometres radius from the post office nearest the establishment, $12.60 per day.

(c) Where a foreman travels daily from inside any radius referred to in (a) or (b) to a job outside that area that foreman shall be paid:

(i) $12.60 per day.

(ii) In respect of travel from the designated radius to the job and return to that radius 37 cents per kilometre and wages for the time spent in such travel.

(d) Where a foreman is transferred from one site to another during working hours, 69 cents per kilometre and wages for the time spent travelling.

(2) (a) The allowance prescribed in this clause shall not be payable on any day which the employer provides or offers to provide suitable transport free of charge from the foreman's home to his/her place of work and return.

(b) Where a foreman is supplied with a vehicle for the travel referred to in subclause (1) above, no allowance shall be paid to that foreman.

(c) Provided that a foreman who is supplied with a vehicle or offered or provided with suitable transport to and from the job shall receive the wages provided for in (1)(c)(ii) and (1)(d) of this clause when undertaking travel referred to in those paragraphs.