Carewest Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 20: Travel Expenses

1. When an Employee, at the request of the Employer, drives a motor vehicle other than a motor vehicle supplied by the Employer, reimbursement shall be at the rate of sixty-one cents ($0.61) per kilometre, or the rate per kilometer paid by the Government of Alberta, whichever is higher, from the Employee’s residence and return.
2. 1. When an Employee is required by the Employer to travel for employment purposes, they shall be reimbursed for all reasonable expenses supported by receipts as required by the Employer and at no less than the rates contained within the Employer’s policy dated April 1, 2017.
   2. An Employee shall be reimbursed for kilometerage and time, paid at the applicable rate of pay, when required by the Employer to travel for employment purposes.
3. Employees who are required to use their personal vehicles for Employer business, and to maintain business use insurance coverage as a result, shall be required to submit evidence of business insurance coverage when the vehicle is used on such business.  The Employer shall reimburse the Employee as follows:
   
   Cost of Business                          Cost of Personal
   Use Insurance                               Use Insurance
   Coverage                                       Coverage                            Reimbursement to
   $________________         Less          $                                   =     Maximum of
   (Basic Age                                     (Basic Age Group               $500.00
   Group Good Record)                     Good Record)
    
4. If the Employer requests an Employee to provide a driver’s abstract, the cost of obtaining the abstract shall be reimbursed by the Employer upon production by the Employee of proof of payment of the cost.