Travelling Outside Radial Areas Allowance


Award Definition

Silviculture Award 2010 [MA000040]

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Applies from: 01/07/2023

Allowance Description

Where an employee travels daily from inside any radial area mentioned in clauses 17.5(a) to 17.5(c),to a job outside that radial area, they must be paid the relevant allowance prescribed by clauses 17.5(a) to 17.5(c) and, in respect of the travel to and from the designated radius and the job:

(i) the time outside ordinary working hours reasonably spent in such travel, calculated at the ordinary hourly rate to the next quarter of an hour with a minimum payment of one half an hour per day for each return journey; and

(ii) any expenses necessarily and reasonably incurred in such travel, which must be $0.95 per kilometre where the employee uses their own vehicle.



What to pay

$14.52 per day plus payment at the minimum hourly rate of pay (including any relevant all purpose allowances) for travel from designated boundary to the job and return to the boundary

Notes

This isn't technically an allowance, more a payment for hours worked

Should you withhold tax?

Withhold tax from these payments

Should super be paid on this allowance?

Include super to the extent that it is within ordinary hours

Should payroll tax be paid on this allowance?

Include this allowance for payroll tax purposes

How is it treated on the payment summary?

Include this as part of gross wages

How should it be reported for Single Touch Payroll?

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