AT825520 - Australian Workers’ Union Construction and Maintenance (Western Australia) Award 2003 [Transitional]
27.1 An employee, who on any day is required by the employer to report directly to the job, shall be paid an allowance in accordance with the provisions of this subclause to compensate for travel patterns and costs peculiar to the industry, which includes mobility requirements of employees, and the nature of employment in the construction work covered by this award.
27.1.1 Jobs within a radius of 50 kilometres from the General Post Office (GPO), Perth - $15.30 per day.
27.1.2 Jobs over 50 and no more than 60 kilometres from the GPO Perth. For each additional kilometre to a radius of 60 kilometres from the General Post Office, Perth – $0.58 per kilometre.
27.1.3 Subject to the provisions of 27.1.4, work performed at places beyond a 60 kilometre radius from the General Post Office, Perth shall be deemed to be distant work unless the employer and the employees agree in any particular case that the travelling allowance for such work shall be paid under this clause in which case an additional allowance of $0.58 per kilometre shall be paid for each kilometre in excess of the 60 kilometre radius.
27.1.4 In respect of work carried out from an employer’s depot situated outside a radius of 60 kilometres from the General Post Office, Perth the main Post Office in the town in which such depot is situated shall be the centre for the purpose of calculating the allowance to be paid.
27.1.5 Where a transport to and from the job is supplied by the employer from and to the depot or such other place more convenient to the employee as is mutually agreed upon between the employer and the employee, half the above rates shall be paid.
27.1.6 The abovementioned provisions shall not apply to an employee who is provided with a vehicle by the employer.
27.2 The provisions of this clause shall not apply to an employee to whom clause 28 – Distant Work is applicable.
