Common use of Mobilizing and Demobilizing Clause in Contracts

Mobilizing and Demobilizing. Employees will be reimbursed for travel expenses to and from the Employer's shop to the job site as directed on the following basis: Public Transportation: reasonable actual cost substantiated by receipt: It shall not be a condition of employment that an employee must use their own vehicle for company use. (a) A local resident is defined as a Union member who resides within eighty (80) road kilometres from the project or employer’s shop, at the time of hire. An employee's residence is the place where they have maintained for a period of at least 90 days, a self-contained domestic establishment (a dwelling place, apartment, or similar place of residence where a person generally sleeps and eats) in which they reside and for which they can show proof acceptable to the Employer. (b) Local residents, as defined in Article 9.03 (a), shall not be entitled to initial or terminal transportation as set out in Article 9.04 (c) nor shall they be entitled to a Periodic Leave / Turnaround as set out in Article 9.13. Local residents shall receive a Daily Travel Allowance (c) Local residents living beyond a twenty-five (25) road kilometre free zone around the job site of the project shall receive Employer supplied transportation from an Employer supplied accommodation, and be paid sixty cents (60¢) per road kilometre from the edge of the twenty-five (25) road kilometre free zone around the job site to their place of residence as a daily travel allowance for each day worked or reported for work. When driving their own vehicle, daily travel will be paid both ways. When driving a company vehicle travel will be paid one way. Where weather or road conditions do not allow the employee to travel to their residence, the Employer shall provide Room and Board in lieu of daily travel. No employee shall be discharged for refusing to drive their own vehicle for transportation from the Employer's shop to the job site. The on-site offices or trailers shall not be considered as the Employer's shop except for jobs where employees are being paid living expenses according to Article 9.08 or 9.09.