What's the going rate for daily meal allowances/per diems these days? In particular on the fires.
What does the award say? I'm finding it kind of confusing.
Meal allowances
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- 1st Dan
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Re: Meal allowances
Hello sir
from
https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/documents/modern_awards/pdf/ma000046.pdf
Another little sneaky one
And the ATO table for acceptable amounts from here
I'd be interested if anyone gets near these values from their employer??
E.5.6 Travelling and working away from home base
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(ii) Where a pilot is away from home base on an overnight or field tour other
than a tour where the employer is obligated to accept messing
arrangements provided by the client the meal allowance will be:
Breakfast $26.35
Lunch $29.52
Dinner $50.76
(iii) Where a pilot elects to charge any meal or meals direct to the employer
the allowances for such meals prescribed by clause E.5.6(b)(ii) will not
be payable nor will the amounts charged exceed those set out in clause
E.5.6(b)(ii) in respect of any meal, or, where the three meals are taken the
total of those amounts on a daily basis.
from
https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/documents/modern_awards/pdf/ma000046.pdf
Another little sneaky one
E.5.4 Specific on-shore allowances—overnight allowance
The following overnight allowance will be paid to a pilot for each night spent away
from their home base; such amount is to be additional to any other allowance
provided for under this award in respect of time spent away from home base:
Australia and dependencies 2.5% of the standard rate
And the ATO table for acceptable amounts from here
I'd be interested if anyone gets near these values from their employer??
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- 1st Dan
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Re: Meal allowances
Check their EBA's but you'll find the bigger companies - CHC, Bristow, etc, pay close to or at the ATO limit - around $150 per day for most pilots. They get this for each night away from home, so roughly $2100 for the average 2 week offshore tour. The best thing is it's tax free and as long as it's below the ATO limit it does not have to be substantiated.
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- Silver Wings
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Re: Meal allowances
In NSW its in the RFS SOP's , to what they will refund a customer . Off hand it's like the 20 30 40 rule for breakfast-lunch & dinner, and if you miss breakfast you can't tack that cost onto lunch etc..
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- 1st Dan
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Re: Meal allowances
So $48 would be a bit low...
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Re: Meal allowances
UnObvious wrote:What's the going rate for daily meal allowances/per diems these days? In particular on the fires.
What does the award say? I'm finding it kind of confusing.
As Mr. Wocky stated......
Best of luck mate getting an employer to pay anywhere near that.
Never forget UnObvious......"The company’s goal is always safety first but we also need to make a profit, so cost savings will be considered with regard to all aspects of the program."
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