STAR PUBLICATIONS (M) BERHAD
NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS MALAYSIA AGREEMENT OF 2001
(continued)
CLAUSE 30 - TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE
Every employee who is required to travel regularly on the Company’s business shall be entitled to receive a fixed transport allowance as full compensation for all claims in respect of such travel within a radius of 25 kilometres of his office, if he uses a motorcar. For those using other means of conveyance, the radius shall be 16 kilometres of his office.
(ii) The said transport allowance shall be paid while the employee is on sick leave or on annual leave not longer than half a month.
(iii) The rates of transport allowance shall be: -
(a) For an employee who is in possession of a motorcar and is utilising it on the Company’s business, an amount of RM270.00 and a sum equivalent to 238 litres of petrol per month.
(b) For an employee who is in possession of a motor-cycle or motor-scooter and is utilising it on the Company’s business, an amount of RM140.00 and a sum equivalent to 145 litres of petrol per month.
(c) RM430.00 per month for any other entitled employee who finds his own means of conveyance for travel on the Company’s business but is not in possession of a motor-car or motor-cycle or motor-scooter which he is utilising on the Company’s business.
(iv) For journeys on duty beyond the aforesaid 25-kilometre radius for motorcars and 16-kilometre radius for other means of conveyance, an employee shall be paid at the rate of forty eight (48) sen for each kilometre actually travelled by him in his own car, or at the rate of thirty five (35) sen for each kilometre actually travelled by him using a motor-cycle or motor-scooter or shall, if required to travel by any other mode of conveyance, be reimbursed the reasonable expenses actually so incurred by him.
(v) The Company shall reimburse an employee:
(a) Motorcar parking fees incurred while on official duty up to a maximum of RM200.00 per month and on the production of official receipts, or contact reports in areas where no official receipts are available or M135.00 per month without the production of official receipts or contact reports, provided he is not on annual leave, compassionate leave, medical leave, unpaid leave or any other leave granted by the Company for more than half (½) a month.
(b) Motor-cycle/motor-scooter parking fees incurred while on official duty and on the production of official receipts.
(vi) Toll charges are to be excluded from motorcar parking fees and are to be claimed only while on official duty and on the production of official receipts.
(vii) Apart from the rates provided for in Clause 30 (iii), all photographers and crime reporters shall be paid, provided they are not on sick leave or annual leave for more than half a month, an additional transport allowance of RM50.00 per month.
CLAUSE 31 - SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE
(i) The Company shall reimburse an employee when he is required to travel and perform work at a station more than 32 kilometres away from his home station in Peninsular Malaysia, as follows:
(a) reasonable expenses actually incurred for accommodation if necessary;
(b) a day allowance of RM22.00 per day if he is not required to pass the night away on Company’s business;
(c) a subsistence allowance of RM50.00 per night, excluding reasonable hotel accommodation if he is required to pass the night or nights away on Company’s business;
(d) an allowance of RM60.00 per day apart from subsistence allowance if be chooses not to seek hotel accommodation for whatever reasons or is unable to obtain hotel accommodation; and
(e) reasonable laundry charges actually incurred where he remains away from his home station for not less than three (3) days.
(ii) The Company shall reimburse an employee when he is required to travel and perform work in:
(a) Sabah or Sarawak:
- with a day allowance of RM32.00 per day if he is not required to pass the night away on Company’s business.
- with a subsistence allowance of RM65.00 per day if he is required to pass the night or nights away on Company’s business.
(b) Singapore:
- with a day allowance of S$27.00 per day if he is not required to pass the night away on Company’s business.
- with a subsistence allowance of S$60.00 per day if he is required to pass the night or nights away on Company’s business.
CLAUSE 32 - TIME-OFF FOR STUDIES
(i) The Company shall give sympathetic consideration to the release of an employee on full pay leave who is nominated and accepted by the Government, the Malaysian Trade Union Congress or the Union to attend a course of study or a conference approved by the Ministry of Human Resources.
(ii) The Company shall give due consideration to the release of employees wanting to further their studies locally or abroad on their own.
CLAUSE 33 - TIME-OFF OR LEAVE ON UNION BUSINESS
Time-off or leave on Union business shall be in accordance with the provision of Section 6 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1967.
CLAUSE 34 - ENTERTAINMENT EXPENSES
(i) The Company shall reimburse reasonable entertainment expenses incurred with prior approval of the Company on each occasion of such entertainment by an employee in the course of his duty.
(ii) Where an employee incurs, without the prior approval of the Company, reasonable entertainment expenses in circumstances, which preclude him from obtaining such approval, the Company shall give sympathetic consideration to a claim by the employee for reimbursement.
CLAUSE 35 - FORMAL DRESS
(i) The Company shall reimburse an employee for the cost of any formal dress or special costume required to be worn by such an employee in the discharge of his duties and for the purchase or rental of which the prior approval of the Company has been obtained.
(ii) The Company shall give due consideration to the reimbursement of reasonable cost due to damage to an employee’s clothing or shoes suffered while in the discharge of duties specifically with reference to the coverage of fire, flood or other disasters such as strikes, riots or civil commotion.
CLAUSE 36 - TRANSFERS
(i) The Company may at its discretion and in the interest of its business from time to time assign, reassign or transfer an employee to work consistent with his contract of service or with any variation thereof agreed before such assignment, reassignment or transfer between the Company and the employee. Where an employee’s contract of service is silent or ambiguous on the extent to which he may be assigned, reassigned or transferred, it shall be deemed to permit from time to time his assignment, reassignment or transfer to work in any of the Company’s place of work in Malaysia.
(ii) The Company shall reimburse an employee, where the prior agreement of the Company to such reimbursement has been obtained, the reasonable expenses incurred on transfer from one town or city to another and shall allow an employee reasonable time off duty for the purpose of finding accommodation in the town or city to which he is transferred.
(iii) An employee who is transferred by the Company to work in any of the Company’s places of work in Malaysia shall be paid a displacement allowance, as follows: -
Single employee lump sum of RM400.00
Spouse lump sum of RM200.00
Children:
(a) 7 years and above l lump sum of RM200.00 per child
(b) Below 7 years l lump sum of RM150.00 per child
And provided further that the total amount payable shall not exceed RM1,500.00.
(iv) For the purpose of this Clause, the following shall be deemed to constitute one town or city:
(a) Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya
(b) Klang and Port Klang
(c) Putrajaya and Cyberjaya
