collective agreement

Article 13 - Transportation, Travel and Accommodation

1. It is recognized by the Employer and the Union that the purpose of transportation, travel and accommodation allowances as established in this article, is to provide a fair means of compensating employees for additional travel and accommodation expenses they incur while working on jobsites beyond a reasonable distance from their residence.
   
   
2. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Employer's base of operations is defined as Vancouver, Nanaimo or the job site. The base of operation will be determined at the pre-job conference.
   
   
3. For selected job sites with peculiar geographic circumstances, the Employer and the Union, by mutual agreement may establish alternative or amended policies for transportation, travel and accommodation. Such alternative or amended policies will be established for the duration of the job site and will be put into writing and signed by a representative of the Employer and the Union.

1. Transportation and accommodation zones of fifty-five (55) and eighty (80) kilometres by road are established from the Employer’s base of operations.
   
   
2. A bona fide local resident will be defined to mean any person residing within eighty (80) kilometers by road of the project or, where ferry travel is involved, within seventy-five (75) minutes travel time including ferry travel and road kilometers and has resided within such distance of the site for a period of not less than thirty days prior to the commencement of the project.

1. Local residents (as defined in Article 13.02 b)) residing within fifty-five (55) road kilometers of the job site shall not be entitled to receive daily transportation expense, initial and return transportation expense, room and board or subsistence, or camp accommodations, or rotational leave provisions.
   
   
2. Local residents residing between fifty-five (55) road kilometers and eighty (80) road kilometers of the job site shall not be entitled to receive initial and return travel time or expense, room and board or subsistence, or camp accommodations, or rotational leave provisions, but shall be paid a transportation expense of an amount to be determined at the Pre-Job Conference, each way to cover transportation expense for each day worked.
   
   
3. There will only be daily travel beyond the eighty (80) road kilometers upon the mutual agreement of the parties.
   
   
4. When the Employer provides transportation to the jobsite, there is no daily travel allowance.

1. For projects whose base of operations is defined as Vancouver or Nanaimo there is no initial or shift Travel Allowances.
   
   
2. For projects whose base of operations is defined as the job site, the initial and shift travel allowances will be based on the following criteria:
   
   
   1. Initial and shift travel allowances will be paid only to employees whose permanent residence is beyond eighty (80) kilometres by road;
      
      
   2. all travel allowance will be paid from the Union’s Vancouver office up to eighty (80) kilometres by road from the job site;
      
      
   3. initial travel allowance will be paid for the beginning of the project, and again, if the employee is laid off and recalled to the same project. Employees who quit or are terminated for just cause within twenty-one (21) work days of their start date will not receive initial travel allowance.
      
      
   4. employees will receive travel allowance for every completed shift cycle as defined in the Pre-Job Conference for the project. Such travel allowance will be paid provided the employee returns to work on the next shift cycle or is laid off by the Employer. Payment will be made on the employees following pay cheque.
      
      
   5. the amount of initial and shift cycle travel allowance is subject to negotiation and agreement between the Employer and the Union. The cost of public transportation, duration of travel from the Union’s Vancouver office, and other unique features of the project will be used as guidelines. The amount of travel allowance will be indicated on the Pre-Job Conference report.
      
      
   6. If the Employer provides transportation to the jobsite, there shall be no initial or shift cycle travel allowance.

1. No accommodation allowance shall be paid for Local Residents as defined in Article 13.02 b).
   
   
2. For projects whose base of operations is defined as the job site, accommodation allowance will be paid for all employees whose permanent residence is beyond eighty (80) road kilometres from the job site.
   
   
3. Daily accommodation allowance will be paid as determined at the Pre-Job Conference. The minimum accommodation allowance will be $75.00 per day worked.
   
   
4. Employees receiving accommodation allowance will not be entitled to daily travel allowance unless the Employer and Union agree that there is no accommodation available within the fifty-five (55) road kilometres from the job site. Employees in this situation, who provide their own transportation, will receive a daily travel allowance determined in the Pre-Job Conference.

1. On all projects, regardless of accessibility or isolation, where an employee transports an Employer’s vehicle to the job, such employee will be paid his regular rate of pay for actual time traveled. Such employees will not receive duplicating travel allowance.
   
   
2. On all projects, regardless of accessibility or isolation, where an employee’s classification requires the use of his own vehicle in the performance of his duties, such employee will be paid at his regular rate of pay for actual (reasonable) time traveled from the point of hire to the project and return.

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