Common use of TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL TIME Clause in Contracts

TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL TIME. 12.01 The Employer will provide transportation to and from jobs from the Employer’s shop. If the Employer requests and the employee agrees that an employee’s car is used for such transportation, the owner shall be paid fifty cents (50¢) per kilometre for such use. 12.02 There is no paid travel within the free travel zone. The free travel zone will consist of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Creek and Burlington. 12.03 Where travel to a job site outside the zone described above is required, the Employer shall pay travel time to the job site. For greater certainty, employees are paid from the time they report to the yard or marshalling area until the time they leave the last work site of the day, less one half (½) hour for lunch. 12.04 For projects that are out of town and which will require the employees to lodge overnight the following shall apply. One half (1/2) of the time on the return trip is paid for travel. The Employer shall make mutually agreeable arrangements for lodging and shall pay for lodging and shall pay for restaurant meals. In the event this cannot be arranged, the Employer shall pay each employee a daily food allowance equal to one and one half (1 ½) times the foreperson hourly rate for each day that the employee is out of town. Regardless of the amount of work available, the Employer shall pay at least four (4) hours per day that an employee is out of town, provided the employee was able to work. Where there is sufficient daylight or where lights are provided, where there is no inclement weather, where the work can be commenced prior to 4 p.m., and where it is safe to do so, the employees will be expected to work at least four (4) hours on such a project. 12.05 In consideration for the responsibility for caring for a company vehicle, an employee who spends time cleaning and maintaining the vehicle shall be paid for such time.