Common use of Meal Expense Allowance Clause in Contracts

Meal Expense Allowance. (a) An employee assigned to a scheduled field pickup or other authorized Company business that requires travel and/or work away from the home office overnight shall receive a per diem allowance of Fifty-Seven Dollars ($57.00) per day for meals and incidental expenses for each calendar day that the employee is away from the home office effective April 15, 2017. (On assignments outside the Continental United States, the per diem allowance shall be the same as that provided to unrepresented staff employees of the Company on the same assignment.) The term “incidental expenses” as used in this Subsection (a) refers to expenses incurred for items such as laundry and tips. Employees will not be reimbursed for telephone calls and transportation (other than transportation and telephone calls authorized by the Company for business purposes). In the unusual case in which an employee incurs reasonable and necessary expenses in excess of the per diem allowance, the employee shall submit a statement of such expenses to the management representative for approval. In the case of a remote in which meals are not readily available, the Company may cater meals in a restaurant, hotel dining room or equivalent accommodation, in which event, the per diem allowance shall be reduced by Three Dollars ($3.00) for each meal other than breakfast so catered and One Dollar, Fifty Cents ($1.50) for each breakfast so catered. For the purpose of applying the per diem allowance, an assignment in which the employee travels by air shall be deemed to start at his or her plane's scheduled departure time and end at the actual arrival time at the gate of the plane which the employee takes to return to his or her home office, provided that, if the actual arrival time of the plane at the gate is before 2:00 A.M., the assignment shall be deemed to have ended on the previous day. On all assignments covered hereunder lasting five (5) or more consecutive days, an employee shall receive, in addition to the per diem allowance provided above, a special laundry allowance of Six Dollars ($6.00) per day, retroactive to the first day of such assignment.

Meal Expense Allowance. (a) An employee assigned to a scheduled field pickup or other authorized Company business that requires travel and/or work away from the home office overnight shall receive a per diem allowance of Fifty-Seven Five Dollars ($57.0055.00) (increased to Fifty-Six Dollars ($56.00) effective April 13, 2013) per day for meals and incidental expenses for each calendar day that the employee is away from the home office effective April 15, 2017office. (On assignments outside the Continental United States, the per diem allowance shall be the same as that provided to unrepresented staff employees of the Company on the same assignment.) The term “incidental expenses” as used in this Subsection (a) refers to expenses incurred for items such as laundry and tips. Employees will not be reimbursed for telephone calls and transportation (other than transportation and telephone calls authorized by the Company for business purposes). In the unusual case in which an employee incurs reasonable and necessary expenses in excess of the per diem allowance, the employee shall submit a statement of such expenses to the management representative for approval. In the case of a remote in which meals are not readily available, the Company may cater meals in a restaurant, hotel dining room or equivalent accommodation, in which event, the per diem allowance shall be reduced by Three Dollars ($3.00) for each meal other than breakfast so catered and One Dollar, Fifty Cents ($1.50) for each breakfast so catered. For the purpose of applying the per diem allowance, an assignment in which the employee travels by air shall be deemed to start at his or her plane's scheduled departure time and end at the actual arrival time at the gate of the plane which the employee takes to return to his or her home office, provided that, if the actual arrival time of the plane at the gate is before 2:00 A.M., the assignment shall be deemed to have ended on the previous day. On all assignments covered hereunder lasting five (5) or more consecutive days, an employee shall receive, in addition to the per diem allowance provided above, a special laundry allowance of Four Dollars and Fifty Cents ($4.50) (increased to Six Dollars ($6.00) effective May 11, 2013) per day, retroactive to the first day of such assignment.. Section 7.7(b)

Meal Expense Allowance. (a) An employee assigned to a scheduled field pickup or other authorized Company business that requires travel and/or work away from the home office overnight shall receive a per diem allowance of Fifty-Seven Dollars ($57.00) per day for meals and incidental expenses for each calendar day that the employee is away from the home office effective April 15, 2017. (On assignments outside the Continental United States, the per diem allowance shall be the same as that provided to unrepresented staff employees of the Company on the same assignment.) The term “incidental expenses” as used in this Subsection (a) refers to expenses incurred for items such as laundry and tips. Employees will not be reimbursed for telephone calls and transportation (other than transportation and telephone calls authorized by the Company for business purposes). In the unusual case in which an employee incurs reasonable and necessary expenses in excess of the per diem allowance, the employee shall submit a statement of such expenses to the management representative for approval. In the case of a remote in which meals are not readily available, the Company may cater meals in a restaurant, hotel dining room or equivalent accommodation, in which event, the per diem allowance shall be reduced by Three Dollars ($3.00) for each meal other than breakfast so catered and One Dollar, Fifty Cents ($1.50) for each breakfast so catered. For the purpose of applying the per diem allowance, an assignment in which the employee travels by air shall be deemed to start at his or her plane's ’s scheduled departure time and end at the actual arrival time at the gate of the plane which the employee takes to return to his or her home office, provided that, if the actual arrival time of the plane at the gate is before 2:00 A.M., the assignment shall be deemed to have ended on the previous day. On all assignments covered hereunder lasting five (5) or more consecutive days, an employee shall receive, in addition to the per diem allowance provided above, a special laundry allowance of Six Dollars ($6.00) per day, retroactive to the first day of such assignment.