TRAVELLING TIME

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 12

TRAVELLING TIME

CARPENTERS I'AND1'AND JOINERS' AWARD. '

Aa interpretation of the clause in the Carpenter^ and Joiners' award deal&| with country work wu given by 4h! Arbitration Court yesterday. The ones! tion arose that if a worfor is engaged by a city employer for work in the country, but leaves the employment b£ fore the completion of the job for which he was engaged, he is entitled to claim return fare and travelling time back to the town at which he was engaged deals tv-itn two different subiects (aS payment of return fare and (b) payment lor travelling time. If the worker is engaged on a job coming under subh£ Uf=vi C); h + ei lS T titkd t0 V^ment of his fare to the place.of engagement if he has completed four weeks' work from the commencement of his service on that lob, or from the date on which he last became entitled to payment of his return fare, as the case may be. If the worker is engaged on a job coming under subclause (d), he is entitled to payment' of his fare to the place of engagementon tne same conditions: as in the former case except that the qualifying period Lit «^! cc m°nt^ instead of four weeks. If the worker leaves before the %Z let^? + °f th?J oh ' he not entitled to be paid travelling time for the return journey, but if the employer dismkse" him for any cause other than misconduct or incompetence he is entitled to be paid travelling time for the return journey "