Location of home base a) Upon the commencement of employment, the Employer must notify the employee of the location of the employee’s nominated home base.
b) For existing employees at the time this Agreement comes into operation, the location of the employee’s nominated home base shall be their office, workshop or depot used for travel allowance purposes immediately prior to this Agreement coming into operation and such location will be recorded in the employee’s service record. If this clause operates unfairly or unreasonably to an employee, the employee may raise a dispute via the dispute resolution procedure and have the employee’s nominated home base determined via such procedure based on fairness and reasonableness, taking into account where the employee was originally and predominantly employed.
c) The nominated home base may not be changed for an employee once determined pursuant to this subclause, unless genuinely agreed without undue pressure, by the Employer and relevant employee. Employees will not be discriminated against by reason of the location of their home base. The change must be confirmed in writing.
d) If the Employer has made a decision to close a home base permanently, and thereby, seeks to change the nominated home base for an employee, then the employee will receive a relocation allowance set out in APPENDIX G - WORKPLACE RELOCATION.
Location of home base. (a) Upon the commencement of employment, the Employer must notify the employee of the location of the employee’s nominated home base.
(b) For existing employees at the time this Agreement comes into operation, the location of the employee’s nominated home base shall be their office, workshop or depot used for travel allowance purposes immediately prior to this Agreement coming into operation and such location will be recorded in the employee’s service record. If this clause operates unfairly or unreasonably to an employee, the employee may raise a dispute via the dispute resolution procedure, and have the employee’s nominated home base determined via such procedure based on fairness and reasonableness, taking into account where the employee was originally and predominantly employed.
(c) The nominated home base may not be changed for an employee once determined pursuant to this subclause, unless genuinely agreed without undue pressure, by the Employer and relevant employee. Employees will not be discriminated against by reason of the location of their home base. The change must be confirmed in writing.
(d) If the Employer has made a decision to close a home base permanently, and thereby, seeks to change the nominated home base for an employee, then the parties must agree on a relocation allowance, based on prevailing industry standards in the power industry, before any employee’s home base is changed as a result of the closure.
