Excess Travel. An employee who is travelling or on duty away from the employee’s head station will be paid for the time necessarily spent in travel or on duty (exclusive of overtime duty) in excess of:
(a) the employee’s usual hours of duty for the day; and
(b) the time necessarily spent between departing from home and commencing duty at the employee’s head station and the time necessarily spent between ceasing duty at the head station and arrival at home.
Excess Travel a) This clause is designed to compensate employees who are disadvantaged by the operational need to commence work at a place other than their home base.
b) Employees who are required for operational reasons to commence or finish work at a place other than their nominated home base i.e. at an alternative work place, will receive payment for Excess travel time as if worked.
c) Excess travel time is the time taken to reach the alternative workplace additional to the time taken to reach the nominated home base reaching any job site E.
Excess Travel. 40.1 Excess travel time is defined as additional travelling time incurred by an employee in the following circumstances where:
40.1.1 the employee is directed to start work at a location which takes longer to travel to or from their home than to the usual place of work.
40.1.2 the employee is transferred to a new place of work which takes longer to travel to or from their home than to the former place of work. See also Sub-clause 40.2.
40.1.3 the employee is required to work overtime or is called out on a day which is not their normal working day. See also Sub-clause 40.5. Where the employee does not have a usual place of work but instead has a nominal headquarters to which they are attached, for the purpose of calculating excess travel the headquarters are treated as the usual place of work.
40.2 Where an employee is transferred to a new place of work, payment for any excess travel shall only continue for the first six (6) months. This does not include transfers or appointments made at the employee’s request or which are made for disciplinary reasons.
40.3 Payments for excess travel shall be calculated by estimating the actual travel time and distance by road. Excess travel time shall be calculated at ordinary rates for journeys undertaken Monday to Saturday inclusive and at ordinary time plus a half on Sundays and Agreement/Public Holidays. This does not apply to travel time undertaken for a call-out which is covered in Sub-clause 40.5. Reimbursement for the distance travelled is not paid in any circumstances where an employee travels in an EnergyAustralia vehicle.
40.4 Excess travel is not paid for journeys undertaken during work time.
40.5 Where an employee is called out, all travelling time is paid at the appropriate overtime rate. The minimum payment of four (4) hours includes any excess travel time where the total time for the job plus travel to and from the job is four (4) hours or less.
40.6 An employee will be paid for his/her actual excess travel time and fares or the amount calculated under 40.3 above, whichever is the greater. Where an employee believes he/she has not at least been paid for the actual excess travel time and fares, he/she should submit a claim providing sufficient details about the actual mode of transport and the duration of travel for the claim to be assessed and paid.
40.7 Employees who travel in an EnergyAustralia vehicle are only entitled to payment for any excess travel time which exceeds 30 minutes per journey except whe...
Excess Travel. (a) This clause is designed to compensate employees who are disadvantaged by the operational need to commence work at a place other than their nominated home base.
(b) Employees, who are required for operational reasons to commence or finish work at a place other than their nominated home base (i.e. at a different base, workplace, depot, job site) will receive payment for Excess travel time as if worked.
(c) Excess travel time is the additional time taken to reach the alternative workplace, when compared with the time taken to reach the nominated home base (e.g. if time to reach nominated home base is 15 minutes and time taken to reach alternative workplace is 30 minutes, then 15 minutes excess travel time applies.)
(d) Employees who qualify for excess travel time will receive an additional allowance as per Appendix B per kilometer per day where they use their own vehicle for travel. This allowance is not payable where a company vehicle is supplied.
Excess Travel. (a) Where an Employee’s place of work is at a construction site located more than 50 klms from the Employee’s depot by the nearest practicable route and the Employee is required to provide, maintain and drive their own vehicle he/she shall be paid an amount of $0.85 per klm in excess of such 50klms from the depot.
(b) On major projects in accordance with Clause 7 of this Agreement an amount of $0.55 per klm in excess of 75 klms calculated from the Employee’s residence shall be paid.
Excess Travel. 18.1.1 This clause is designed to compensate employees who are disadvantaged by the operational need to commence work at a place other than their nominated home base.
18.1.2 Employees, who are required for operational reasons to commence or finish work at a place other than their nominated home base (i.e. at a different base, workplace, depot, job site) will receive payment for Excess travel time as if worked.
18.1.3 Excess travel time is the additional time taken to reach the alternative workplace, when compared with the time taken to reach the nominated home base (e.g. if time to reach nominated home base is 15 minutes and time taken to reach alternative workplace is 30 minutes, then 15 minutes excess travel time applies.)
18.1.4 Employees who qualify for excess travel time will receive an additional allowance as per Appendix B per kilometer per day where they use their own vehicle for travel. This allowance is not payable where a company vehicle is supplied.
Excess Travel. As well as the above-mentioned Fares allowance, excess travelling time is payable if the work site is beyond 80 kilometres from the workshop or registered office. Where an employee is required to travel to a job site outside the 80 kilometres from the Company’s registered office or depot the employee will be paid the following; A payment for time travelled in excess of the 80 kilometres with a minimum payment of a quarter of an hour. The rate will be: ⮚ Ordinary time Monday to Friday ⮚ Time and one half on Saturday and Sunday ⮚ .Double time on public holidays This radius will apply on all occasions except when geographical difficulties prevent direct road travel. In these circumstances the shortest direct road route will determine the 80km mark. For travel in excess of the 80km employees using their own vehicle will be compensated for consideration of the ‘incidental expenses actually incurred’ at the rate of 45 cents per kilometre. It is further agreed that when multiple employees are travelling to a site together this allowance will only be paid Where an employee incurs any toll or similar fee in the course of travelling at the Company’s direction, during working hours, an amount equivalent to the sum incurred by the employee will be reimbursed by the Company immediately upon proof of such expenditure by the employee.
Excess Travel. If you are a Home Service employee and you travel greater than 40 kilometres from your home to your first engagement or from your last engagement to your home you will be paid the kilometre allowance in accordance with clause 8.8a and paid travel time aligned to your classification rate for kilometres travelled above 40 kilometres for each for applicable trip. Payment will not be made under this clause where your first or last engagement is located within 40 kilometres from the Home & Disability Services office, branch or outlet as at the commencement of this Agreement.
Excess Travel. If you travel greater than 20 kilometres from your home to your first engagement or from your last engagement to your home you will be paid the kilometre allowance in accordance with clause 8.8a and paid travel time aligned to your classification rate for kilometres travelled above 20 kilometres for each applicable trip. Payment will not be made under this clause where your first or last engagement is located within 20 kilometres from the Home & Disability Services office, branch or outlet you are employed to work, or the local post office facility in the town in which you predominately work.
