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Section 7.7 - Meal Expense Allowance

(a)          An employee assigned to a scheduled field pickup or other authorized Company business that requires travel and/or work away from the home office overnight shall receive a per diem allowance of Fifty-Four Dollars ($54.00) (increased to Fifty-Five Dollars ($55.00) effective January 11, 2010) per day for meals and incidental expenses for each calendar day that the employee is away from the home office.  (On assignments outside the Continental United States, the per diem allowance shall be the same as that provided to unrepresented staff employees of the Company on the same assignment.)  The term "incidental expenses" as used in this Subsection (a) refers to expenses incurred for items such as laundry and tips.  Employees will not be reimbursed for telephone calls and transportation (other than transportation and telephone calls authorized by the Company for business purposes). In the unusual case in which an employee incurs reasonable and necessary expenses in excess of the per diem allowance, the employee shall submit a statement of such expenses to the management representative for approval.  In the case of a remote in which meals are not readily available, the Company may cater meals in a restaurant, hotel dining room or equivalent accommodation, in which event, the per diem allowance shall be reduced by Three Dollars ($3.00) for each meal other than breakfast so catered and One Dollar, Fifty Cents ($1.50) for each breakfast so catered.  For the purpose of applying the per diem allowance, an assignment in which the employee travels by air shall be deemed to start at his or her plane's scheduled departure time and end at the actual arrival time at the gate of the plane which the employee takes to return to his or her home office, provided that, if the actual arrival time of the plane at the gate is before 2:00 A.M., the assignment shall be deemed to have ended on the previous day.  On all assignments covered hereunder lasting five (5) or more consecutive days, an employee shall receive, in addition to the per diem allowance provided above, a special laundry allowance of Four Dollars ($4.00)(increased to Four Dollars and Fifty Cents ($4.50) effective January 12, 2008) per day, retroactive to the first day of such assignment.

Section 7.7(b)

(b)              Employees assigned to field pickups not covered by the foregoing (including employees assigned to the studio and subsequently assigned to a field pickup for the remainder of their tour) shall be allowed a single payment of Thirteen Dollars ($13.00)(increased to Fourteen Dollars ($14.00) effective January 12, 2008) for meals after eleven (11) elapsed hours, or Nineteen Dollars ($19.00)(increased to Twenty Dollars ($20.00) effective January 12, 2008) after fifteen (15) elapsed hours, if the employee is on assignment in the field, at the end of such eleventh (11th) or fifteenth (15th) elapsed hour respectively.  In lieu of the foregoing, when sleeping accommodations are not furnished but the assignment requires the employee to travel fifty (50) miles or more (one way) from the main office of the employee’s Company office and requires absence from the employee’s home office for at least fourteen (14) hours, a per diem will be paid in the amount of Twenty-Eight Dollars ($28.00)(increased to  Twenty-Nine Dollars ($29.00) effective January 12, 2008) in lieu of meals.  Necessary incidental expenses such as taxi fares and tips shall be reimbursable on assignments covered by this Subparagraph (b).

(c)          In the event that less than eight (8) hours exists between the end of an employee’s tour and the start of his or her next tour, the Company shall, at the request of the employee, provide hotel accommodations with single occupancy.  Such accommodations shall be located within ten (10) miles of either the employee’s location at the end of the employee’s tour, or the location of the start of employee’s next tour.  The Company shall also, at the request of such employee, provide taxi or equivalent transportation to and from such accommodation at no cost to the employee.

Because this Section 7.7 (c) is motivated by safety considerations, the parties agree that a regular or daily hire employee may not be entitled to such hotel accommodations or transportation, depending upon how far in distance an employee resides from the location at the end of an employee’s tour. The parties agree to act reasonably in the application of this provision recognizing hotel or transportation accommodations are not automatic for a regular or local daily hire employee, even if there are fewer than eight (8) hours from the end of such employee’s tour until the commencement of said employee’s next tour.

(d)         In the event the Company provides a hotel room or equivalent accommodation for a local remote within an office of the Company which would not normally require an overnight stay, or for other contingencies, (e.g., weather, special reports), affected employees shall receive one Section 7.7(a) per diem payment for each night the employee is assigned to remain overnight in such accommodations.

              The grievance in New York relating to the transportation strike is withdrawn and shall not be refiled.

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