| (1) | Travelling and subsistence allowances |
| (a) | Whenever a job is situated outside a radius of 15km of the employer"s own place of business where the employee is normally required to report, but within the area to which this Agreement relates, and the employee can reasonably be said to be able to and does return to his home every day, any time occupied by an employee in proceeding to or from the working site shall be one way in his own time and the other way during the normal working hours prescribed in clause 7, of Part I of this Agreement: Provided that time spent in travelling between jobs during that day shall be in the employer"s time. |
| (b) | An employer shall provide suitable transport both ways or pay for transport in respect of the said distance at rates laid down by the Council from time to time. The Council shall determine the rates in January of each year and such rates all become effective on the first Friday after 15 January of each year. |
| (c) | Any employee entitled to a transport allowance as provided for in subclause (b) above shall be paid such allowance at the same time as he is paid his normal remuneration. |
| (d) | Where an employee can reasonably be said to be able to return to his home every day, but is precluded from availing himself of the transport referred to in sub clause (b) above in consequence of being required to report at his employer"s place of business before proceeding to the job and/or at the conclusion of the day"s work, such employee shall be paid for every hour travelled outside the ordinary working hours in compliance with such requirement at 50 per cent of his hourly wage. |
(e)
| (i) | Where the employee can reasonably be said to be unable to return to his home daily, he shall be entitled to suburban railway fare or second-class main-line railway fare to and from the place of work at the beginning and termination of such work. Time occupied in travelling during the ordinary working hours shall be paid at the applicable hourly rate of wages of the employee concerned. |
Bedding and normal meals on main-line trains, when required, shall be paid for by the employer.
| (ii) | Where an employee, by reason of employment, is away from his usual working place and is required by his employer to live away from his usual domicile, meals and lodging shall be paid for or provided on the job by the employer. Where no hotel or other suitable accommodation is available within a reasonable distance of the working place and accommodation is supplied on site, the employee shall be paid a subsistence allowance of R85.00 per night. |
Provided that with effect from the date of coming into operation of the agreement the employee shall be paid a subsistence allowance of R90.00 per night.
| (iii) | Accommodation supplied on site shall include cold and hot water, toilet facilities and a bed and a mattress. |
| (iv) | Where meals are supplied by the employer on site, he shall not be required to pay a subsistence allowance, but the standard of the meals provided shall be commensurate with the subsistence allowance that would have been paid in terms of this subclause. |
| (2) | Stand-by allowance: every employer shall pay every employee who is required to do stand-by duties a minimum of R59.01 per stand-by duty shift. |
| (3) | The stand-by allowance payable in terms of subclause (2) will be adjusted annually by the percentage wage increase that is agreed in that year. |
