1. Board and lodging
Agreement on board and lodging arrangements shall be made before an enterprise sends an employee on an assignment away from home. The main rule is that the employer shall pay for board and lodging.
Otherwise the shop stewards and the enterprise may agree on other systems in regard to board and lodging,
such as a fixed rate or reimbursement according to account rendered, etc. The standard of lodgings is given in Appendix 18, Accommodation, workmen’s huts, living quarters and personnel rooms.
2. Expenses while travelling
If an employee is sent on an assignment away from home, necessary travel expenses (second best class on public means of transport) shall be reimbursed
according to account submitted. If the second best class cannot be used, he shall be reimbursed for the best class. Meals during the journey shall be reimbursed according to the company’s travel scale or account rendered.
3. Payment for travelling time at beginning and end of journey.
Ordinary hourly pay shall be paid for travelling time, see the Agreement, Chapter 2, minimum pay rates. If sleeping accommodation is used, payment shall be made for travelling hours in ordinary working time and until 20.00 hrs. For travel on Saturdays and public holidays, payment shall be made for the same number of hours as on other days.
For paid travelling hours between 13.00 hrs on Saturday and 22.00 hrs on Sunday and for paid travelling hours between 07.00 and 22.00 on public holidays, the employee shall in addition be paid 50% of the overtime basis. This similarly applies for travel on off-duty days.
4. Paid journey home during the assignment period
4.1 For journeys in connection with travelling home and
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return journey less NOK 100.- each time, maximum 17 times a year and not oftener than once every third week. These journeys also include journeys in connection with vacations and/or public holidays (no payment is made for travelling time).
4.2 Expenses shall be calculated according to the cheapest
public communications. Employees who travel to a place other than the starting point, are entitled to reimburse-ment according to the preceding paragraph in a sum that corresponds to what the journey to the starting point would have cost, plus the return journey less NOK 100.- per time.
4.3 Taking vacations shall not result in loss of rights under
this provision.
4.4 ”Starting point” means the place to which the employee
is entitled to return after the work has ended.
4.5 Note for plumbers
Travelling time and expenses shall be paid from the lodgings to the place of work. Payment for travelling time in accordance with 8 below.
§ 7-2 When absence overnight is not necessary
See Appendix 14, Comments on provisions concerning remuneration for travelling time and travelling
expenses pursuant to the Collective Agreement, § 7-2.
Travelling time and walking time are not included in working hours.
Distance
”Distance”, see 7.2, 1 and 2, means the length of the distance the employee must cover to get from home to where he is working.
Toll money
Road toll payments will be refunded when the
employee’s expenses are reimbursed according to 7-2, 1.
For passing through a toll gate where the charge differs according to the size and/or weight of the vehicle, the charge will be reimbursed at the rate for private cars (less than 3500 kg).
Travelling allowance
Travelling allowance paid out according to the rules in § 7-2 is pay and will be included in the basis for
calculating holiday pay.
A daily allowance will be paid according to the following rules for walking time, travelling time and travelling expenses for travelling to and from home and the place of work:
1. When transport is arranged by the employee
her/himself:
a) If the distance from home to work place is
up to 7.5 km, no allowance
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For longer distances the allowance will be:
b) For distances from 7.5 to 15 km: NOK
74.90
c) For distances from 15 to 30 km: NOK
124.20
d) For distances from 30 to 45 km: NOK
145.60 e) For distances from 45 to 60 km:
NOK 166.70
Any local systems that are better, shall be retained. Daily commuting in excess of 60 km each way is not advisable.
If for practical reasons no lodgings can be arranged, the enterprise and the shop stewards may agree on special systems for daily commuting in excess of 60 km. When making such agreements proper consideration shall be given to the health and safety of the employees and also the length of travelling time.
Young employees and apprentices
Young employees and apprentices shall be paid a reduced allowance corresponding to 85% of the above rates.
2. When transport is arranged by the employer:
When the employer makes a suitable means of transport available free of charge, the following rates apply for the driver and accompanying passengers:
a) If the distance from home to work place is up
to 7.5 km, no allowance will be paid.
For longer distances the allowance will be: b) For distances from 7.5 to 15 km: NOK 44.80
c) For distances from 15 to 30 km: NOK 74.60 d) For distances from 30 to 45 km: NOK 89.20 e) For distances from 45 to 60 km: NOK 104.20 Any local systems that are better, shall be retained. Daily commuting in excess of 60 km each way is not advisable.
If for practical reasons no lodgings can be arranged, the enterprise and the shop stewards may agree on special systems for daily commuting in excess of 60 km. When making such agreements proper consideration shall be given to the health and safety of the employees and also the length of travelling time.
Young employees and apprentices
Young employees and apprentices shall be paid a reduced allowance corresponding to 70% of the above rates.
Local agreements
The management of the enterprise and the shop stewards, see FOB 1-1, 5, may conclude other agreements in §7-2, 2, for the driver when a free service vehicle/means of transport is provided by the employer.
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No allowance shall be paid when the employee is working in the enterprise’s own works, stockyard or other workplace on the enterprise’s own premises. When an employee signs on at a building site and the working day ends at a work place such as mentioned in the first paragraph, he shall be paid half of the
allowance in 1 and 2 above. This similarly applies when the employee signs on at a work place such as mentioned in the first paragraph and the working day ends on the building site.
4. For maintenance work, redecorating and repair work
and other comparable jobs performed on the principal’s premises (works, factory etc.), no allowance shall be paid when the employee is offered, in writing,
prospects that work at the place in question will last at least two years. It is a condition that agreements already made will be maintained.
5. If both a car and ferry are used and the ferry costs 50%
or more of the fixed allowance, the parties recommend that a reasonable solution be found in each particular case. Any road toll charges shall be reimbursed by the enterprise in full if the distance is over 7.5 km.
6. The allowance shall be paid out at each ordinary wage
payment.
7. Future adjustments
See Appendix 20.
Ferry and road toll outlay: See provisions in Appendix 14.
Chapter 8 - Special rules for travelling time and expenses for