DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hall, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer. (i) A forty-five (45) kilometer radius free zone from the center of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary (Geodetic Monument) or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 Street and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject to 12.01 (a)(i) and (ii) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses. (iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure. (b) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options: (i) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or (ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between the edge of the free zone and the project job site daily and pay travel allowance. (c) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with Article
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hall, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer.
(ia) A forty-five (45) kilometer radius free zone from the center of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary (Geodetic Monument) or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 101st Street and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject to 12.01 (a)(i) and
(iii) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-forty five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses.
(iiiii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(b) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options:
(i) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or
(ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between the edge of the free zone and the project job site daily and pay travel allowance.;
(c) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with ArticleArticle 12.04 (a)(iii) or (b)(iii), and when there is no accommodation available within 45 km. of the project on which the employee is engaged, the employer shall determine the location of the nearest available suitable accommodation, and shall determine the number of road kilometres beyond a 45 kilometre radius of the project that would be required to travel each way from the nearest available suitable accommodation, and shall calculate the travel allowance in accordance with the above provisions. In the event suitable accommodation within a 45 kilometre radius of the project becomes available, the payment of the travel allowance will cease.
(d) Where the Employer supplies the transportation, such transportation shall, at a minimum, be a safe, clean and modern means of transportation with sufficient seating for each person allowing adequate comfort for adults. School buses shall not be used for such transportation. Where the employer is supplying transportation, and when the size of the crew is such that the capacity of a coach-type bus is required, such bus transportation will be provided. Pick up points shall be mutually agreed upon.
(e) Employees who are transported to a job site but who refuse to start work at the prescribed time due to a picket line or other form of labour relations dispute will not be paid transportation or travel allowance for that day.
(f) When the transportation provided by the Employer for the conveyance of employees is delayed by circumstances that are reasonably within the control of the Employer or the bussing company, the Employees shall be paid for all such time in excess of 15 minutes beyond the scheduled departure time, up to a limit of two
(g) If an employee is required by the Employer to move from one job to another during working hours, the Employer shall provide the
(h) Employees required to travel out of a city or town to another job after working a shift, and before an eight (8) hour break occurs, shall be paid for all time traveled at the rate of time and one-half the normal rate. If still traveling the following day, the employee shall be paid the normal rate for time traveled during the regular working day only.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hall, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer.
(i) A forty-five (45) kilometer radius free zone from the center of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary (Geodetic Monument) or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 101st Street and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. .
(ii) No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject (Subject to 12.01 (a)(i15.02(a)(iii) andand 15.02(a)(iv)).
(iiiii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(iv) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses.
(iiiv) Notwithstanding It is agreed that if a major petroleum/petro-chemical project is undertaken in the foregoing, on major construction projects located area south of Redwater but north of the free zone such project will be deemed to be included within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(b) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options:
(i) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or
(ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between the edge of the free zone and the project job site daily and pay travel allowance.
(c) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with Article;
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Samples: Collective Agreement
DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hall, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer.
(i) A forty-five (45) kilometer radius free zone from the center of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary (Geodetic Monument) or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 Street 000 Xxxxxx and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject to 12.01 (a)(i) and
(ii) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses.
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(b) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options:
(i) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or
(ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the current rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between the edge of the free zone and the project job site daily and pay travel allowance.. The current rate is determined by the Coordinating committee and council (See example #2). This will be provided to the Union and posted as a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at xxx.xxxx.xxx
1. The travel allowance shall be calculated based on traveling at 100 km per hour, at the employee’s applicable base rate, from the point where the edge of the 45 km radius free zone intersects the road which takes the shortest, most appropriate route, to the project and return to the intersecting point. Example: A Journeyperson member traveling in May of 2023 to a project located 50 road kilometers from the edge of the free zone at 100 km per hour each way would receive the following for each day worked:
2. Travel Allowance (c) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with Articleexample): Travel Total Vehicle Allowance: 100 km @ $0.65 cents per km. = Total
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Samples: Collective Agreement
DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hall, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer.
(ia) A forty-five (45) kilometer radius free zone from the center of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary (Geodetic Monument) or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 101st Street and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject to 12.01 (a)(i) and
(iii) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-forty five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses.
(iiiii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(b) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options:
(i) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or
(ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between the edge of the free zone and the project job site daily and pay travel allowance.;
(c) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with ArticleArticle 12.04 (a)(iii) or (b)(iii), and when there is no accommodation available within 45 km. of the project on which the employee is engaged, the employer shall determine the location of the nearest available suitable accommodation, and shall determine the number of road kilometres beyond a 45 kilometre radius of the project that would be required to travel each way from the nearest available suitable accommodation, and shall calculate the travel allowance in accordance with the above provisions. In the event suitable accommodation within a 45 kilometre radius of the project becomes available, the payment of the travel allowance will cease.
(d) Where the Employer supplies the transportation, such transportation shall, at a minimum, be a safe, clean and modern means of transportation with sufficient seating for each person allowing adequate comfort for adults. School buses shall not be used for such transportation. Where the employer is supplying transportation, and when the size of the crew is such that the capacity of a coach-type bus is required, such bus transportation will be provided. Pick up points shall be mutually agreed upon.
(e) Employees who are transported to a job site but who refuse to start work at the prescribed time due to a picket line or other form of labour relations dispute will not be paid transportation or travel allowance for that day.
(f) When the transportation provided by the Employer for the conveyance of employees is delayed by circumstances that are reasonably within the control of the Employer or the bussing company, the Employees shall be paid for all such time in excess
(g) If an employee is required by the Employer to move from one job to another during working hours, the Employer shall provide the transportation or pay vehicle allowance at the rate established by the formula in 12.01(b) above if the employee uses his own vehicle. The employee shall not suffer any loss of pay as a result of transferring between projects during working hours.
(h) Employees required to travel out of a city or town to another job after working a shift, and before an eight (8) hour break occurs, shall be paid for all time traveled at the rate of time and one-half the normal rate. If still traveling the following day, the employee shall be paid the normal rate for time traveled during the regular working day only.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hallhall location, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer.
(ia) A forty-five (45) kilometer kilometre radius free zone from the center centers of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary in which Local Unions are centered (Geodetic Monument) ), or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer Employer, shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 101st Street and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject to 12.01 (a)(i) and
(ii) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses.
(iiib) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five seven hundred fifty (500750), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(bc) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer kilometre (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options:
; Example : - A Journeyman member traveling to a project located forty (i40) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or
(ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between road kilometres from the edge of the free zone and at eighty (80) kilometres per hour each way would receive the project job site daily and pay travel allowance.following for each day worked:
(cd) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with ArticleArticle 11.05(a)(iii) or (b)(iii), and when there is no accommodation available within forty-five (45) kilometres of the project on which the employee is engaged, the employer shall determine the location of the nearest available accommodation, and shall determine the number of road kilometres beyond a forty-five (45) kilometre radius of the project that would be required to travel each way from the nearest available accommodation, and shall calculate the travel allowance in accordance with the above provisions. In the event accommodation within a forty-five (45) kilometre radius of the project becomes available, the payment of the travel allowance will cease.
(e) Where the Employer is required to supply transportation, such transportation shall, at a minimum, be a safe, clean and modern means of transportation with sufficient seating for each person allowing adequate comfort for adults. School buses shall not be used for such transportation. When the size of the crew is such that the capacity of a coach-type bus is required, such bus transportation will be provided. Pick up points shall be mutually agreed upon.
(f) Employees who are transported to a job site but who refuse to start work at the prescribed time due to a picket line or other form of labour relations dispute will not be paid any transportation allowance for that day.
(g) When the transportation provided by the Employer for the conveyance of employees is delayed by circumstances beyond the control of the employees, the employees shall be paid for all such time, up to a limit of two (2) hours at the applicable straight time rate.
(h) If an employee is required by the Employer to move from one job to another during working hours, the Employer shall provide the transportation or pay vehicle allowance at the rate of thirty-nine cents (39¢) per kilometre traveled if the employee uses his own vehicle. The employee shall not suffer any loss of pay as a result of transferring between projects during working hours.
(i) Employees required to travel out of a city or town to another job after working a shift, and before an eight (8) hour break occurs, shall be paid for all time traveled at the rate of time and one-half the normal rate. If still traveling the following day, the employee shall be paid the normal rate for time traveled during the regular working day only.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
DAILY COMMUTING. (a) The following conditions will apply on jobs within daily commuting distance of Edmonton, Calgary, or any location with a hiring hall, and on jobs from which employees commute daily from temporary accommodation provided or paid for by the Employer.
(ia) A forty-five (45) kilometer radius free zone from the center of the cities of Edmonton or Calgary (Geodetic Monument) or around any place in which employees are temporarily domiciled by the Employer shall be established. The location of the Geodetic Monument of Edmonton is 101 101st Street and Jasper Avenue and for Calgary, the Calgary Tower. No transportation or travel allowance shall be applicable within the free zone [subject to 12.01 (a)(i) and
(ii) The time in transit on buses between the site and the camp shall be determined by representatives of the Building Trades of Alberta and of the Coordinating Committee of Registered Employers’ Organizations, based on an average during a reference week of five test runs each way, conducted coincident with the times when workers are in transit. This determination should be carried out twice per year, with any adjustment resulting from a determination applicable until the next determination. Workers shall be paid an allowance for time regularly and routinely in excess of forty-five minutes each way, for travel within the applicable free zone. The allowance shall be calculated on the regular straight time base rate of each worker. The allowance will be paid only to workers who ride on the provided buses, and only for the days on which they ride the buses.
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, on major construction projects located within the free zone, around the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, but beyond the city bus transportation system of those cities, where it is expected that the total construction workforce will exceed five hundred (500), the affected parties shall meet to discuss the viability of implementing a system of providing transportation to the site. The parties shall take into account such considerations as climate, seasons, road capacity, other projects and industries using the same corridors, workforce curves, and site infrastructure.
(b) For projects beyond the forty-five kilometer (45 km) free zone for which daily travel is required, the Employer will have the following options:
(i) to provide transportation and pay travel allowance, or
(ii) reimburse the employees, as a vehicle allowance, at the rate of fifty-two cents (52¢) per kilometer traveled, each way between the edge of the free zone and the project job site daily and pay travel allowance.;
(c) When an employee is being paid subsistence allowance in accordance with ArticleArticle 12.04 (a)(iii) or (b)(iii), and when there is no accommodation available within 45 km. of the project on which the employee is engaged, the employer shall determine the location of the nearest available suitable accommodation, and shall determine the number of road kilometres beyond a 45 kilometre radius of the project that would be required to travel each way from the nearest available suitable accommodation, and shall calculate the travel allowance in accordance with the above provisions. In the event suitable accommodation within a 45 kilometre radius of the project becomes available, the payment of the travel allowance will cease.
(d) Where the Employer supplies the transportation, such transportation shall, at a minimum, be a safe, clean and modern means of transportation with sufficient seating for each person allowing adequate comfort for adults. School buses shall not be used for such transportation. Where the employer is supplying transportation, and when the size of the crew is such that the capacity of a coach-type bus is required, such bus transportation will be provided. Pick up points shall be mutually agreed upon.
(e) Employees who are transported to a job site but who refuse to start work at the prescribed time due to a picket line or other form of labour relations dispute will not be paid transportation or travel allowance for that day.
(f) When the transportation provided by the Employer for the conveyance of employees is delayed by circumstances that are reasonably within the control of the Employer or the bussing company, the Employees shall be paid for all such time in excess of 15 minutes beyond the scheduled departure time, up to a limit of two (2) hours at the applicable straight time rate.
(g) If an employee is required by the Employer to move from one job to another during working hours, the Employer shall provide the transportation or pay vehicle allowance at the rate established by the formula in 12.01(b) above if the employee uses his own vehicle. The employee shall not suffer any loss of pay as a result of transferring between projects during working hours.
(h) Employees required to travel out of a city or town to another job after working a shift, and before an eight (8) hour break occurs, shall be paid for all time traveled at the rate of time and one-half the normal rate. If still traveling the following day, the employee shall be paid the normal rate for time traveled during the regular working day only.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
