AP792378CRV - Pastoral Industry Award 1998
25.1 Allowance where sleeping quarters are not provided
25.1.1 Where the employee does not reside during a shearing (or crutching) at the employee’s home or usual place of residence and the employee is forced to obtain and pay for sleeping quarters away from the employer's premises because the employer is unable to provide sleeping quarters at the premises for the employee, the employer shall:
(a) arrange for sleeping quarters for the employee to be supplied elsewhere at the employer's expense; or
[25.1.1(b) corrected by Q6829 from 29Jun98; varied by PR924413 PR939622 PR952724 PR964200 PR976745 PR979066; PR984305 ppc 01Oct08]
(b) pay to the employee an allowance of $38.26 per night for each night during the employee's employment that the employee is so forced to obtain and pay for sleeping quarters; and where the distance is one kilometre or more walking distance between the employee's sleeping quarters and the shed, provide or pay for the transport of the employee between the sleeping quarters and the shed.
Where the total travel time to and from the sleeping quarters and the shed exceeds one hour per day, an allowance of $12.63 per hour shall be payable to the employee for all time in excess of such hour.
25.1.2 Where an employee resides during a shearing (or crutching) at his home or usual place of residence and travels daily to the shed, the following provisions shall apply, subject to subclause (c) hereof:
Travelling allowance - Shearers (or Crutchers) only
[25.1.2(a) varied by PR924413 PR939622 PR952724 PR964200 PR976745 PR979066; PR984305 ppc 01Oct08]
(a) Where the distance between the shed and the employee's place of abode exceeds 65 kilometres by the most direct practicable route the employer shall pay to the employee a travelling allowance of $11.37 per day for each day upon which the employee so travels.
Vehicle allowance - all employees
[25.1.2(b) varied by PR924413 PR964200 PR976745; PR984305 ppc 01Oct08]
(b) Where an employee, by prior arrangement and agreement with an employer, uses the employee’s own motor vehicle to travel to and from the shed the employee shall be paid a vehicle allowance of 32 cents per kilometre for travel by the most direct practicable route between the shed and the employee’s normal place of abode.
[25.1.3 corrected by Q6829 from 29Jun98; R3683 from 29Jun98]
25.1.3 Subclauses 25.1.2(a) and (b) hereof shall not apply in any case where the employer offers the employee suitable accommodation at the shed and the employee chooses not to use it.
25.2 Breakdown of machinery: allowance for delays and termination of agreements
[25.2.1 corrected by Q6829 from 29Jun98; varied by R9225 T0650; PR900617 from 12Dec00; PR924413 PR939622 PR952724 PR964200 PR976745 PR979066; PR984305 ppc 01Oct08]
25.2.1 Where a shearer or crutcher or a piecework woolpresser is stopped from working through a breakage or failure of machinery, except from any cause over which the employer has not any control, and the total period of all such stoppages which occur in any one week exceeds two hours working time, the employer shall pay to the employee an allowance at the rate of $141.73 per day in the case of not found employees and at the rate of $117.55 per day in the case of found employees for every day or part of a day beyond two hours of working time in any one week as long as there are sheep fit to shear.
[25.2.2 inserted by PR952724 ppc 31Oct04]
25.2.2 The not found breakdown rate is calculated as the old breakdown rate x the new shearers rate per 100 divided by the old shearers rate per 100 (less found deduction if Found).
