Please note: the allowances provided below apply from the first pay period on or after 1 July 2010 and are subject to the annual review by Fair Work Australia.

Travelling allowance – where unable to return home at night - $30.33 per day (sub-clause 16.1(f)(i)).

Note sub-clause 16.1(f) (ii) - An employee prevented from returning with the employee’s turn-out to the depot, yard or garage from which the employee started must be paid

• any travelling expenses required to be incurred, and
• as if for time worked for the time the employee reasonably takes to get home beyond the time it would ordinarily have taken to get home from the depot, yard or garage.

Meal allowance (sub-clause 26.3)

• An employee required to work overtime for two continuous hours or more must either be supplied with a meal by the employer or paid the amount specified for a meal allowance for each meal required to be taken.

• An employee required to commence work two hours or more prior to the normal starting time must be paid the amount specified for a meal allowance.

• The meal allowance amount specified is $13.14 (sub-clause 16.3(e))

Transport allowance - when finishing overtime (sub-clause 27.6)

When an employee, after having worked overtime, finishes work at a time when reasonable means of transport are not available, the employer must reimburse the employee for the cost of obtaining transport home, or alternatively provide the employee with transport to the employee’s home, or pay the employee the current wage for the time reasonably occupied in getting home.