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 the centre of Edmonton and Calgary, 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) road kilometres and an eighty (80) kilometre radius are established from the Employer’s base of operations.
   
   
2. A bona fide local resident will be defined to mean any person residing within an (80) kilometer radius of the project 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 the eighty (80) kilometer radius 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) kilometers radius 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 Calgary or Edmonton 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 agreed to at the pre-job based on the following criteria:
   
   
   1. travel allowances will be paid for all employees whose permanent residence is outside the eighty (80) kilometre radius of the job site;
      
      
   2. initial travel allowance will be paid from the Union’s Edmonton office to the job site. This 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) days of their start date, will not be entitled to initial travel allowance. If the Employer has paid the employee the initial travel allowance the Employer may deduct the initial travel allowance from the employee’s final paycheque;
      
      
   3. the employee will also receive return travel allowance for every completed shift cycle, as defined in the Pre-job form for the project. An employee whose permanent residence is within the 80-500 kilometre radius will receive one-hundred dollars ($100.00) per completed shift cycle. Employees whose permanent residence is beyond the 500 kilometre radius will receive two-hundred dollars ($200.00) per completed shift cycle. Justifiable reasons for absences will be accepted.
      
      
   4. the travel allowance earned as noted in iii) above, will be paid on the employee’s following paycheque.
      
      
   5. the amount of travel allowances will be subject to negotiation and agreement between the Employer, the Union, and an employee where practical, with the cost of public transportation, the Travel Allowance amount in Article 13.03 (f), duration of travel and Article 26 as guidelines. The amount will be indicated on the pre-job form for the project.
      
      
   6. if the Employer provides transportation to the jobsite, there shall be no initial or shift travel allowances.  

1. For projects whose base of operations is defined as Calgary or Edmonton no accommodation allowance will be paid.
   
   
2. No accommodation allowance shall be paid for Local Residents as defined in Article 13.02 b). 
   
   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) kilometres from the job site.
   
   
3. Daily accommodation allowance will be eighty-five dollars ($85.00) per calendar day unless otherwise agreed by the parties subject to Article 2.04.
   
   
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) 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.
   
   
5. Where camp accommodations are provided, accommodation allowance will not be paid.  

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 their 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 their own vehicle in the performance of their duties, such employee will be paid at their regular rate of pay for actual (reasonable) time traveled from the point of hire to the project and return.  

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