Common use of Transportation and Travel Expenses Clause in Contracts

Transportation and Travel Expenses. Each Club shall pay the following expenses of Players: (1) All proper and necessary traveling expenses of Players while “abroad,” or traveling with the Club in other cities, including board, and first-class jet air and hotel accommodations, if practicable, for any travel that is directed, requested or required by the Club. Play- ers who have reported to the Minor Leagues at the time of the event, transaction, direction or request that results in the travel will receive travel expenses in accordance with past practice as set forth in Arti- cle XIX(B) and (C)(3)(d). Each Club shall give written notice to the team’s Player Repre- sentative and the Association, prior to December 1 of each year, of the hotels, including hotels in the Club’s home city and spring train- ing hotels, that the Club intends to utilize during the next succeed- ing season. On regularly scheduled commercial flights, when first-class accommodations cannot practicably be provided and Players travel in the coach section, the Club shall provide three seats for each two Players and first-class meals. During the championship season, including travel to the first game of such season, no Club, absent extraordinary circumstances that make travel by plane impossible, may travel by bus between games if the distance between the two cities is, by the most direct highway route, more than 200 miles (one way). (2) First-class jet air fare and meals en route, of Players to their homes at the end of the season, regardless of where the Club fin- ished its season. If the Club finishes its season “abroad” and appro- priate transportation is not provided back to the Club’s home city, any Player who elects to return home via the Club’s home city shall be paid an amount equal to the first-class jet air fare and meals en route back to the Club’s home city plus the first-class jet air fare and meals en route from the Club’s home city to the Player’s home. A Player who has more than one home shall receive payment based on the home to which he actually travels. (3) All necessary traveling expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, of Players from their homes to the spring training place of the Club, whether they are ordered to go there directly or by way of the home city of the Club. A Player who has more than one home shall receive payment based on the home from which he actually travels. (4) In the case of assignment of a Player’s contract during the championship season or during spring training, all traveling expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, of the Player as may be necessary to enable him to report to the assignee Club. The Club shall also reimburse the Player for all travel expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, for the Player’s wife for one assignment during the championship season. Such expenses may not be claimed by the Player as part of his mov- ing expenses under Article VIII(C), unless not paid under this pro- vision. A Club may offset such expenses against any moving allowance provided pursuant to Article VIII(A). (5) In the case of termination by the Club of a Player’s contract during the championship season or during spring training, reason- able traveling expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, to the Player’s home city. (6) In the event a Player is required to attend a regularly sched- uled military encampment of the Reserve of the Armed Forces or of the National Guard during the championship season or during spring training, the Player’s air fare to and from the encampment.

Transportation and Travel Expenses. Each Club shall pay the following expenses of Players: (1) All proper and necessary traveling expenses of Players while “abroad,” or traveling with the Club in other cities, including board, and first-class jet air and hotel accommodations, if practicable, for any travel that is directed, requested or required by the Club. Play- ers who have reported to the Minor Leagues at the time of the event, transaction, direction or request that results in the travel will receive travel expenses in accordance with past practice as set forth in Arti- cle XIX(B) and (C)(3)(d). Each Club shall give written notice to the team’s Player Repre- sentative and the Association, prior to December 1 of each year, of the hotels, including in-season hotels in the Club’s home city and spring train- ing hotels, that the Club intends to utilize during the next succeed- ing suc- ceeding season. On regularly scheduled commercial flights, when first-class accommodations cannot practicably be provided and Players travel in the coach section, the Club shall provide three seats for each two Players and first-class meals. During the championship season, including travel to the first game of such season, no Club, absent extraordinary circumstances that make travel by plane impossible, may travel by bus between games if the distance between the two cities is, by the most direct highway route, more than 200 miles (one way). (2) First-class jet air fare and meals en route, of Players to their homes at the end of the season, regardless of where the Club fin- ished its season. If the Club finishes its season “abroad” and appro- priate transportation is not provided back to the Club’s home city, any Player who elects to return home via the Club’s home city shall be paid an amount equal to the first-class jet air fare and meals en route back to the Club’s home city plus the first-class jet air fare and meals en route from the Club’s home city to the Player’s home. A Player who has more than one home shall receive payment based on the home to which he actually travels. (3) All necessary traveling expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, of Players from their homes to the spring training place of the Club, whether they are ordered to go there directly or by way of the home city of the Club. A Player who has more than one home shall receive payment based on the home from which he actually travels. (4) In the case of assignment of a Player’s contract during the championship season or during spring training, all traveling expensesexpens- es, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, of the Player as may be necessary to enable him to report to the assignee Club. The Club shall also reimburse the Player for all travel expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, for the Player’s wife for one assignment during the championship season. Such expenses may not be claimed by the Player as part of his mov- ing moving expenses under Article VIII(C), unless not paid under this pro- visionprovision. A Club may offset such expenses against any moving allowance provided pursuant to Article VIII(A). (5) In the case of termination by the Club of a Player’s contract during the championship season or during spring training, reason- able traveling expenses, including first-class jet air fare and meals en route, to the Player’s home city. (6) In the event a Player is required to attend a regularly sched- uled military encampment of the Reserve of the Armed Forces or of the National Guard during the championship season or during spring training, the Player’s air fare to and from the encampment.