AT765517 - Airline Operations - Flight Attendants’ Long Haul - Qantas Airways Limited - Award 2000 [Transitional]
17.1 Daily skills allowance
17.1.1 A flight attendant exercising specialist skills must be paid a daily skills allowance for each day on which the duties are performed.
17.1.2 The daily skills allowance will be 20 per cent of the top incremental duty hour credit rate of the flight attendant's current category whilst carrying out the function multiplied by 187 divided by 38.
17.2 Daily travelling allowance
17.2.1 Overseas flying definition
For the purposes of this clause overseas flying means all international flying and all flying from any point in Australia to a destination and to any point in Australia from a starting point which is in excess of 60 minutes cruising flight outside the coastline of the mainland of Australia.
17.2.2 Entitlement
Daily travelling allowances will be payable for each calendar day or part of a day spent on duty away from base including the day of departure, but excluding the day of return. However, the total period of absence from base must exceed 24 hours before any allowance is payable. For the purpose of this clause the 24 hours must be calculated from the time the aircraft leaves blocks until the time it arrives on blocks.
17.2.3 Daily travelling allowances
[17.2.3 substituted by PR970700 ppc 24Mar06]
17.2.3(a) Overseas daily travelling allowance must be paid to flight attendants employed on overseas flying at the rate of $49.93 per day.
17.2.3(b) Australian daily travelling allowance at the rate of $22.11 per day must be paid to flight attendants employed on flights within Australia away from their base in the following circumstances:
17.2.4 Adjustments to daily travelling allowances
17.2.4(a) Adjustments to overseas daily travelling allowances must be calculated by the Company in March/April each year by comparing the latest movement in the consumer price index and currency variations in the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore against the pre-existing value of overseas daily travelling allowance. Changes for the three ports must be averaged to produce an overall variation.
17.2.4(b) Adjustments to Australian daily travelling allowance must be calculated by the Company in March/April each year by comparing the latest movements in Australian Consumer Prices (CPI) against the pre-existing value of the Australian daily travelling allowance.
17.2.4(c) The base year for the calculation of overseas daily travelling allowance and Australian daily travelling allowance is 1981.
17.2.4(d) No downward adjustment to overseas daily travelling allowance and Australian daily travelling allowance must take place if the annual calculation results in a negative change.
17.2.5 Standard daily travelling allowance
17.2.5(a) The Company must, in addition to all other allowances and moneys payable under this award, pay to flight attendants a standard daily travelling allowance as compensation for expenses incurred by them in the course of and arising out of their employment whilst travelling overseas.
[17.2.5(b) substituted by PR970700 ppc 24Mar06]
17.2.5(b) The standard daily travelling allowance of $42.38 per week for a female flight attendant and $43.88 per week for a male flight attendant must be paid to a flight attendant when he or she is assigned to and commences overseas flying.
17.2.5(c) Expenses incurred in the course of and arising out of their employment whilst flying overseas are defined as being costs associated with overseas laundering, after hours transportation, telephone costs, shoes, hairdressing, special grooming requirements and any additional costs not normally incurred by ground employees.
17.3 Transfer allowances
17.3.1 A flight attendant will be entitled to reimbursement from the Company of all reasonable expenses incurred by him or her for the removal of his or her furniture and personal effects if transferred at the direction of the Company from one base to another base for a period in excess of 6 months.
17.3.2 In the case of a temporary transfer, a flight attendant will be reimbursed any reasonable personal expense which he or she incurs as a result of the transfer.
17.4 Uniform allowance
17.4.1 Where the Company requires the flight attendant to wear a uniform the company must reimburse the flight attendant for the cost of purchasing a uniform. The provisions of this clause do not apply where the uniform(s) are paid for by the Company.
17.4.2 Where the Company requires female flight attendants to wear panty-hose, the Company must reimburse the flight attendant for the cost of six pairs of panty-hose or three pairs of an agreed brand of supporting hose each two months. The provisions of this subclause do not apply if the Company provides the panty-hose.
17.4.3 If the flight attendant is required to launder uniforms provided by the Company, the flight attendant will be reimbursed for the cost of laundering the uniforms. The provisions of this subclause do not apply if the uniforms are laundered by the Company at the Company’s expense.
17.5 Transport allowance
17.5.1 If a flight attendant commences on or completes a trip between the hours of 2100 and 0700 he or she must be:
17.5.1(a) supplied with free transport between the airport and his or her home provided that his or her home is within the area bounded by the Hawkesbury River in the north, Port Hacking in the south (taking in Bundeena, Heathcote and Glenfield), and in the west, bounded by a hypothetical line taking in Glenorie, Annangrove, Seven Hills and Hoxton Park;
17.6 Accommodation and meals
A flight attendant away from his or her base on duty must be provided with appropriate accommodation and meals provided that the Company may pay an agreed allowance in lieu of providing accommodation and/or meals.
17.7 Reduced rest periods
When a flight attendant's actual rest period is reduced below the planning minima specified in 23.2 he or she will receive an additional payment of one hour for each hour that the rest period is reduced below the appropriate minimum prorated for time less than one hour at his or her applicable rate of pay per duty hour credit.
17.8 Transport delays
If a flight attendant is entitled to home transport and that transport is delayed beyond 60 minutes of arrival on blocks for pre-ordered transport or 15 minutes of transport request otherwise, the flight attendant will accrue duty hour credits, for pay purposes only, for the time in excess of 60 minutes or 15 minutes respectively.
