AT825520 - Australian Workers’ Union Construction and Maintenance (Western Australia) Award 2003 [Transitional]
29.1 Employees who are required to camp or to live at the site of any work either by direction of the employer, or because no reasonable transport facilities are available, to enable them to proceed to and from their homes each day, shall be paid a camping allowance of $145.40 for every complete week they are available for work. Such weekly allowance is to cover any fares incurred at the week-end by men/women travelling away from camp to their homes and return, but an employee who is absent from duty without the employer's approval on the working day immediately prior to or succeeding a week-end shall be paid as provided in the following sentence. If required to be in camp for less than a complete week they shall be paid $20.77 per day, including any Saturday or Sunday if in camp and available for work on the working days immediately preceding and succeeding such Saturday and Sunday.
29.2 Provided, however, where an employer at his/her own cost provides the employee with a proper mess room and cooks the employee's food free of charge, the allowance provided in 29.1 shall be reduced to $80.00 per week, or $11.43 per day, as the case may be.
29.3 Notwithstanding the provisions elsewhere prescribed in this clause, if an employer elects to provide full board and suitable camp lodging, the allowance prescribed herein shall not be payable.
