Common use of SUBSISTENCE AND TRAVEL Clause in Contracts

SUBSISTENCE AND TRAVEL. ‌ 11:01 During the term of this Agreement, no travel allowance, mileage or pay for travel time will be paid to any Employee covered by the terms of this Agreement, except as provided in 11:04. Local residents as defined by Article 11:03 shall not be eligible for initial or terminal transportation expense. (a) Upon Implementation, the Employer will provide the Employee subsistence allowance toward the expense of their board and lodgings in the amount of one hundred and sixty dollars ($160) per day worked. Subsistence shall be paid for recognized holidays provided the employee works the day prior to and the day following the recognized holiday. The subsistence allowance shall be reviewed annually and come into effect the first Sunday of March in each subsequent year during the life of this agreement. The review will take into consideration the relevant market factors to determine if a change needs to be made and is subject to the client’s approval. (b) Any subsistence request for days not worked is subject to client approval and proof of payment receipt that follows CRA guidelines. (c) In unique circumstances where an Employee works an excessively long shift and the shift is the Employee’s last shift prior to lay off, the Employer may provide one (1) additional day’s subsistence allowance. The additional day’s subsistence allowance is intended to provide the Employee the opportunity to rest after the last shift prior to returning home. Employees accepting the allowance are expected to use it to acquire appropriate rest. 11:03 Subsistence allowance will not be paid to local residents as defined below: (a) A local resident is a person who resides within eighty (80) road kilometers of the project. (b) An Employee's residence is the place where they permanently maintain a self-contained domestic establishment (a dwelling place, apartment, or similar place of residence where a person generally sleeps and eats) in which the person resides. Original documents (not photocopies) are required for proof of residence. These will be verified by the Employer, copied and returned. Two (2) of the following are acceptable: ▪ Income Tax Assessment ▪ Property Tax Assessment ▪ Unemployment Insurance ▪ Utilities Receipt Subsistence allowance will not be paid to any Employee when they are absent from work or leaves work without written permission of the Foreperson and Supervisor, but it will be paid when work is delayed due to inclement weather or other emergency. The above forfeiture of subsistence allowance shall be waived when the employee’s absenteeism on any working day is due to a bonafide illness or absence due to compassionate grounds satisfactory to the Employer and the Union. Written permission to leave work shall be in the form of the Leave of Absence Request Form attached as Appendix B to this Agreement. When a request is approved, the Employer shall send a copy of the completed form by facsimile to the Union. 11:04 The transportation expense shall be the vehicle allowance rate published by Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) for the maximum rate (generally for the first 5,000 km). The transportation expense shall be adjusted as the CRA rate changes and becomes effective on the first Sunday in March. (a) Each Employee shall be paid a transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA to the project site from the dispatch point. The dispatch point in all cases is Regina. For an Employee to qualify for initial transportation expense, the Employee must remain fifteen (15) calendar days or until lay-off (whichever comes first). An Employee remaining to job completion, or in the event of a lay-off, shall have their return transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA paid from the project site to the dispatch point. Employees who are transferred from the Boundary Dam or ▇▇▇▇▇ Power Stations to the Poplar River Power Station, or the opposite, shall be paid a transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA. In the event the Employee is transferred again the Employee shall be paid the transportation expense between the points of transfer. Should an Employee be laid off at the station they were transferred to, then the Employee shall be paid terminal transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA to the applicable Local Union dispatch point. If an Employee declines a transfer to another power plant covered by this Agreement and is subsequently rehired within ten (10) days of a layoff by the Employer, the Employee will not be paid transportation expense to the jobsite to which they had declined a transfer. A Local Resident who terminates at the transfer station shall be paid transportation expense back to the original station at which they are a Local Resident. An Employee shall receive at least twenty four (24) hours notice of a transfer. If the Employee is not given this notice they shall be paid one (1) additional day's subsistence allowance in lieu of the said notice. (b) Local residents shall not be entitled to initial or terminal transportation expense. For local residents thirty (30) road kilometers around the project site shall comprise a Free Zone. Local residents living beyond the thirty (30) road kilometers Free Zone of the Project shall be an allowance equal to the current CRA rate per kilometer from their residence to the edge of the Free Zone and return for every day the Employee works or reports for work.

SUBSISTENCE AND TRAVEL. ‌ 11:01 During the term of this Agreement, no travel allowance, mileage or pay for travel time will be paid to any Employee covered by the terms of this Agreement, except as provided in 11:04. Local residents as defined by Article 11:03 shall not be eligible for initial or terminal transportation expense. (a) Upon Implementation, the The Employer will provide the Employee subsistence allowance toward the expense of their board and lodgings in the amount of one hundred and sixty dollars thirty-five ($160135.00) per day worked. Subsistence shall be paid for recognized holidays which fall on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday provided the employee works the day prior to and the day following the recognized holiday. The subsistence allowance shall will be reviewed annually and come into effect the first Sunday of March in each subsequent year during the life of this agreementafter three years. The review will take into consideration the relevant market factors to determine if a change needs to be made and is subject to the client’s approval. (b) Any subsistence request for days not worked is subject to client approval and proof of payment receipt that follows CRA guidelines. (c) In unique circumstances where an Employee works an excessively long shift and the shift is the Employee’s last shift prior to lay off, the Employer may provide one (1) additional day’s subsistence allowance. The additional day’s subsistence allowance is intended to provide the Employee the opportunity to rest after the last shift prior to returning home. Employees accepting the allowance are expected to use it to acquire appropriate rest. 11:03 Subsistence allowance will not be paid to local residents as defined below: (a) A local resident is a person who resides within eighty (80) road kilometers of the project. (b) An Employee's residence is the place where they s/he permanently maintain maintains a self-self- contained domestic establishment (a dwelling place, apartment, or similar place of residence where a person generally sleeps and eats) in which the person resides. Original documents (not photocopies) are required for proof of residence. These will be verified by the Employer, copied and returned. Two (2) of the following are acceptable: ▪ Income Tax Assessment ▪ Property Tax Assessment ▪ Unemployment Insurance ▪ Utilities Receipt Subsistence allowance will not be paid to any Employee when they are s/he is absent from work or leaves work without written permission of the Foreperson and Supervisor, but it will be paid when work is delayed due to inclement weather or other emergency. The above forfeiture of subsistence allowance shall be waived when the employee’s absenteeism on any working day is due to a bonafide illness or absence due to compassionate grounds satisfactory to the Employer and the Union. Written permission to leave work shall be in the form of the Leave of Absence Request Form attached as Appendix B to this Agreement. When a request is approved, the Employer shall send a copy of the completed form by facsimile to the Union. 11:04 The transportation expense shall be the vehicle allowance rate published by Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) for the maximum rate (generally for the first 5,000 km). The transportation expense shall be adjusted as the CRA rate changes and becomes effective on the first Sunday in Marchsame date as the next wage adjustments. (a) Each Employee shall be paid a transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA to the project site from the dispatch point. The dispatch point in all cases is Regina. For an Employee to qualify for initial transportation expense, the Employee must remain fifteen (15) calendar days or until lay-off (whichever comes first). An Employee remaining to job completion, or in the event of a lay-off, shall have their his/her return transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA paid from the project site to the dispatch point. Employees who are transferred from the Boundary Dam or ▇▇▇▇▇ Power Stations to the Poplar River Power Station, or the opposite, shall be paid a transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA. In the event the Employee is transferred again the Employee shall be paid the transportation expense between the points of transfer. Should an Employee be laid off at the station they were s/he was transferred to, then the Employee shall be paid terminal transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA to the applicable Local Union dispatch point. If an Employee declines a transfer to another power plant covered by this Agreement and is subsequently rehired within ten (10) days of a layoff by the Employer, the Employee will not be paid transportation expense to the jobsite to which they s/he had declined a transfer. A Local Resident who terminates at the transfer station shall be paid transportation expense back to the original station at which they are s/he is a Local Resident. An Employee shall receive at least twenty four (24) hours notice of a transfer. If the Employee is not given this notice they s/he shall be paid one (1) additional day's subsistence allowance in lieu of the said notice. (b) Local residents shall not be entitled to initial or terminal transportation expense. For local residents thirty (30) road kilometers around the project site shall comprise a Free Zone. Local residents living beyond the thirty (30) road kilometers Free Zone of the Project shall be an allowance equal to the current CRA rate per kilometer from their residence to the edge of the Free Zone and return for every day the Employee works or reports for work. (c) In the event that the transportation expense is changed in the Provincial Construction Agreement(s), such adjusted amount shall apply to this Agreement as of the effective date of the adjustment. 11:05 Qualified for all welders shall mean possession of a “Basic Ticket” which, for structural welders means the Canadian Welding Bureau Qualification and for all other welders means a current Saskatchewan Boiler Vessels p1, F3/F4 Pressure Ticket. The Basic Ticket shall be valid for at least 30 days after the date of dispatch to the Employer. Where the welder is from out of province and is unable to forward a copy of his/her Basic Ticket equivalent to the Union prior to arrival on the jobsite, the Contractor will fax this ticket to the appropriate Union Business Manager or Government Agency as directed by the Business Manager for the purpose of the Union to register the out-of province welder. In the case that a welder is required to take a customer requested welding test other than for a Basic Ticket, the Employer agrees that such welder will be in the employ of the Employer while taking such tests and be placed on the payroll and paid any applicable travel allowances. An Employee who is required to take a welding test and who passes the test and has reported for the test at the appointed time is expected to perform any available work assigned by the employer for the remainder of that work day. If the Employer has no work available for that day s/he shall be paid for the remainder of the regular day. Upon successfully completing such tests welders who fail to report for work when notified will not be eligible for such testing time, or travel allowances if otherwise applicable.

SUBSISTENCE AND TRAVEL. ‌ 11:01 During the term of this Agreement, no travel allowance, mileage or pay for travel time will be paid to any Employee covered by the terms of this Agreement, except as provided in 11:04. Local residents as defined by Article 11:03 shall not be eligible for initial or terminal transportation expense. (a) Upon Implementation, the The Employer will provide the Employee subsistence allowance toward the expense of their board and lodgings in the amount of one hundred and sixty dollars thirty-five ($160135.00) per day worked. Subsistence shall be paid for recognized holidays which fall on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday provided the employee works the day prior to and the day following the recognized holiday. The subsistence allowance shall will be reviewed annually and come into effect the first Sunday of March in each subsequent year during the life of this agreementafter three years. The review will take into consideration the relevant market factors to determine if a change needs to be made and is subject to the client’s approval. (b) Any subsistence request for days not worked is subject to client approval and proof of payment receipt that follows CRA guidelines. (c) In unique circumstances where an Employee works an excessively long shift and the shift is the Employee’s last shift prior to lay off, the Employer may provide one (1) additional day’s subsistence allowance. The additional day’s subsistence allowance is intended to provide the Employee the opportunity to rest after the last shift prior to returning home. Employees accepting the allowance are expected to use it to acquire appropriate rest. 11:03 Subsistence allowance will not be paid to local residents as defined below: (a) A local resident is a person who resides within eighty (80) road kilometers of the project. (b) An Employee's residence is the place where they s/he permanently maintain maintains a self-self- contained domestic establishment (a dwelling place, apartment, or similar place of residence where a person generally sleeps and eats) in which the person resides. Original documents (not photocopies) are required for proof of residence. These will be verified by the Employer, copied and returned. Two (2) of the following are acceptable: ▪ Income Tax Assessment ▪ Property Tax Assessment ▪ Unemployment Insurance ▪ Utilities Receipt Subsistence allowance will not be paid to any Employee when they are s/he is absent from work or leaves work without written permission of the Foreperson and Supervisor, but it will be paid when work is delayed due to inclement weather or other emergency. The above forfeiture of subsistence allowance shall be waived when the employee’s absenteeism on any working day is due to a bonafide illness or absence due to compassionate grounds satisfactory to the Employer and the Union. Written permission to leave work shall be in the form of the Leave of Absence Request Form attached as Appendix B to this Agreement. When a request is approved, the Employer shall send a copy of the completed form by facsimile to the Union. 11:04 The transportation expense shall be the vehicle allowance rate published by Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) for the maximum rate (generally for the first 5,000 km). The transportation expense shall be adjusted as the CRA rate changes and becomes effective on the first Sunday in Marchsame date as the next wage adjustments. (a) Each Employee shall be paid a transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA to the project site from the dispatch point. The dispatch point in all cases is Regina▇▇▇▇▇▇. For an Employee to qualify for initial transportation expense, the Employee must remain fifteen (15) calendar days or until lay-off (whichever comes first). An Employee remaining to job completion, or in the event of a lay-off, shall have their his/her return transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA paid from the project site to the dispatch point. Employees who are transferred from the Boundary Dam or ▇▇▇▇▇ Power Stations to the Poplar River Power Station, or the opposite, shall be paid a transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA. In the event the Employee is transferred again the Employee shall be paid the transportation expense between the points of transfer. Should an Employee be laid off at the station they were s/he was transferred to, then the Employee shall be paid terminal transportation expense equal to the per road kilometer rate set out by the CRA to the applicable Local Union dispatch point. If an Employee declines a transfer to another power plant covered by this Agreement and is subsequently rehired within ten (10) days of a layoff by the Employer, the Employee will not be paid transportation expense to the jobsite to which they s/he had declined a transfer. A Local Resident who terminates at the transfer station shall be paid transportation expense back to the original station at which they are s/he is a Local Resident. An Employee shall receive at least twenty four (24) hours notice of a transfer. If the Employee is not given this notice they s/he shall be paid one (1) additional day's subsistence allowance in lieu of the said notice. (b) Local residents shall not be entitled to initial or terminal transportation expense. For local residents thirty (30) road kilometers around the project site shall comprise a Free Zone. Local residents living beyond the thirty (30) road kilometers Free Zone of the Project shall be an allowance equal to the current CRA rate per kilometer from their residence to the edge of the Free Zone and return for every day the Employee works or reports for work. (c) In the event that the transportation expense is changed in the Provincial Construction Agreement(s), such adjusted amount shall apply to this Agreement as of the effective date of the adjustment. 11:05 Qualified for all welders shall mean possession of a “Basic Ticket” which, for structural welders means the Canadian Welding Bureau Qualification and for all other welders means a current Saskatchewan Boiler Vessels p1, F3/F4 Pressure Ticket. The Basic Ticket shall be valid for at least 30 days after the date of dispatch to the Employer. Where the welder is from out of province and is unable to forward a copy of his/her Basic Ticket equivalent to the Union prior to arrival on the jobsite, the Contractor will fax this ticket to the appropriate Union Business Manager or Government Agency as directed by the Business Manager for the purpose of the Union to register the out-of province welder. In the case that a welder is required to take a customer requested welding test other than for a Basic Ticket, the Employer agrees that such welder will be in the employ of the Employer while taking such tests and be placed on the payroll and paid any applicable travel allowances. An Employee who is required to take a welding test and who passes the test and has reported for the test at the appointed time is expected to perform any available work assigned by the employer for the remainder of that work day. If the Employer has no work available for that day s/he shall be paid for the remainder of the regular day. Upon successfully completing such tests welders who fail to report for work when notified will not be eligible for such testing time, or travel allowances if otherwise applicable.