- Casual
- Weekly
- Touring
Overview
Where employees live matters in some circumstances relating to Working Times. In the context of this policy, employees may:
- Work in their City of Residence (local shows); or
- Fly-in Fly-out (FIFO) to a location for work; or
- Travel by road to other cities and towns for work in their home state
and
- Stay in their own home; or
- Stay in MPH provided accommodation; or
- Stay with a friend or relative (if not part of a Tour Group); or
- Camp on site (by express agreement only and the Camping Allowance applies!)
City of Residence
The City of Residence is the location where the employee lives, as can be indicated by;
- Where they receive their mail
- Where their furniture is
- Where they usually sleep when not touring
MPH tends to select employees for work based on their City of Residence. For example, if we have the option of employing a person based in Melbourne, or a person based in Perth for an east-coast tour, it’s cheaper for the company to select the Melbourne-based person because Prep work is completed in Melbourne, and no PER-MEL flights are required.
However, employees can choose to temporarily relocate to Melbourne (or another city) to be “closer to the work”. For example,
To be a more-favorable option to MPH, casual employee Martika moved from Perth to Melbourne during MPHs busy season, changing their official City of Residence for the duration – Martika has a friend with a spare room in Melbourne 👯.
The Allowance and Reimbursement polices apply for the new, (possibly) temporary City of Residence. This means Martika may receive fewer Allowances and Reimbursements but is likely to receive more offers of work from MPH.
An employee may only change their City of Residence once per month.
Casual employees considering temporary relocation are not guaranteed additional work.
Accommodation
On a given night, employees are considered to be “living” at their assigned accommodation.
Fly-in Fly-out worker city
MPH often employs FIFO workers – these are our Touring employees who travel by air to a place other than their City of Residence for work, for a short time.
To select appropriate staff for Jobs and understand who pays for flights, we define the FIFO Worker City. This is the location from which an employee is being travelled to / from when:
- Travelling for MPH work; and
- Not travelling to / from their City of Residence
For example,
👉🏼 Lily’s City of Residence is Sydney. She is working on the Gold Coast for few months on a film set for another company. She books MPH work in her week off from film work.
We consider the Gold Coast to be Lily’s FIFO Worker City. MPH will fly Lily from the Gold Coast to Melbourne for the MPH Job and return Lily to the Gold Coast after the MPH Job.
👉🏼 Anuli lives in Perth but is working on a short-term contract in Sydney. She has two weeks off and comes to work for MPH for one week – the next week, she’s working for a different lighting company in Brisbane.
MPH will fly Anuli from SYD to MEL, and back to SYD – otherwise, it’s the other lighting company’s expense to fly her to BNE.
Work in regional locations, in an employee’s home state
Employees may be engaged to work on Jobs that are in the same state as their City of Residence but in a regional town. Travel to the Job Site is typically by road in the employee’s own vehicle.
This is still considered as working away from the City of Residence and a Travel Allowance applies if employees are being accommodated by MPH (some employees may choose to stay at home instead).
Employees are offered accommodation per the Accommodation Policy and a Vehicle Allowance may at times apply for the travel between an employee’s accommodation and the Job Site.