Shipping Costs All items must be bid Freight On Board Destination (hereinafter FOB). This does not include hardware items being shipped to Alaska or Hawaii. Actual shipping costs will apply to items shipped Alaska or Hawaii.
Salary Packaging (1) For the purposes of this Agreement, salary packaging shall mean an arrangement whereby the wage or salary benefit arising under a contract of employment is reduced, with another or other benefits to the value of the replaced salary being substituted and due to the practitioner. (2) A practitioner may, by agreement with the employer, enter into a salary packaging arrangement. (3) The employer shall not unreasonably withhold agreement to salary packaging on request from a practitioner. (4) The employer shall not require a practitioner to enter into a salary packaging arrangement, provided that this clause will not impinge on any additional employer provided benefits. (5) A salary packaging arrangement shall be formulated and operate on the basis that, on balance, there shall be no material disadvantage to the practitioner concerned, and shall be cost neutral in relation to the total employment cost to the employer. (6) A salary packaging arrangement must comply with relevant taxation laws and the employer shall not be liable for additional tax, penalties or other costs payable or which may become payable by the practitioner. (7) In the event of any increase or additional payments of tax or penalties associated with the employment of the practitioner, or the provision of employer benefits under the salary packaging agreement, such tax, penalties and any other costs shall be borne by the practitioner. (8) A practitioner may elect to cancel any salary packaging arrangement by giving a minimum of four weeks notice. (9) The employer may elect to cancel any salary packaging arrangement by giving a minimum of four weeks notice if the employer incurs a liability to pay fringe benefits tax or any other tax in respect of the non-cash benefits provided, provided that the employer cannot retrospectively cancel any salary packaging arrangement. (10) Notwithstanding subclauses (8) and (9) of this clause, the employer and the Practitioner may agree to forgo the notice period. (11) The cancellation of salary packaging will not cancel or otherwise effect the operation of this Agreement. (12) For the purposes of this provision, any penalty rate, loading or other salary related allowances which would ordinarily be calculated on the basis of the salary rates expressed in Schedule 1 Full Time Annual Base Salary Rates shall continue to be so calculated despite an election to participate in any salary packaging arrangement. (13) For the purposes of this provision, statutory 9% employer superannuation contributions shall be made on the basis of pre-packaging salary rates. To avoid doubt, employer contributions shall not be reduced as a result of a practitioner participating in salary packaging pursuant to this provision. (14) The employer may at any time vary the range of benefits provided or the conditions under which benefits are provided however the employer shall not differentiate between different class of practitioners across WA Health in terms or range of benefits or the conditions under which benefits are provided. (15) If a practitioner is found to have committed misconduct in the claiming a salary packaging benefit the employer is entitled to prospectively cease to provide some or all salary packing benefits either indefinitely or for any period determined by the employer.
Cost of Living There will be a cost-of-living allowance calculated on hours worked as follows: An Increase of one (1) cent per hour worked for each rise of .062 points in the Consumer Price Index or a decrease of one (1) cent per hour worked for each drop of .062 points in the Consumer Price Index. When CPI changes would result in a decrease in the total COLA payable, it is agreed and understood that the total COLA payable will be maintained at the level in effect prior to the decrease in CPI in exchange for future offsets. These offsets will take the form of postponing any new COLA generated until such time that the CPI used for any an adjustment date exceeds the CPI that generated the last positive COLA payment. The cost-of-living allowance will be established in accordance with changes in the official Consumer Price Index published by Statistics Canada (2002=100) and hereinafter referred to as the Consumer Price Index which was 112.1 as of June 2007 (May 2007). In no event will a decrease in the Consumer Price Index reduce the contract rates listed in the attached wage schedule outlined in Article 14. The amount of any cost-of-living allowance in effect at any time shall be included in computing overtime pay, jury duty pay and funeral time pay. Index is to be reviewed each quarter commencing January 2014. Revision in cost-of-living allowance will take effect the first of the pay period commencing after Index publication. The continuance of the cost-of-living allowance shall be contingent upon the availability of the official monthly Statistics Canada Consumer Price Index in its present form and calculated on the same basis as the Index published January 25, 2014, unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties. In the event the form or basis of the Index is changed, the parties agree to request said Statistics Canada to continue to furnish, for the term of this agreement, the Index in its present form and calculated on the same basis as the Index published January 25, 2014. Fold in all existing COLA adjustments into wages up to and including adjustment #12 (October 2017).
Training Costs All costs and expenses incurred by the Contractor in the training of its employees engaged in Petroleum Operations, and such other training as is required by this Agreement.
Long Term Cost Evaluation Criterion # 4. READ CAREFULLY and see in the RFP document under "Proposal Scoring and Evaluation". Points will be assigned to this criterion based on your answer to this Attribute. Points are awarded if you agree not i ncrease your catalog prices (as defined herein) more than X% annually over the previous year for years two and thr ee and potentially year four, unless an exigent circumstance exists in the marketplace and the excess price increase which exceeds X% annually is supported by documentation provided by you and your suppliers and shared with TIP S, if requested. If you agree NOT to increase prices more than 5%, except when justified by supporting documentati on, you are awarded 10 points; if 6% to 14%, except when justified by supporting documentation, you receive 1 to 9 points incrementally. Price increases 14% or greater, except when justified by supporting documentation, receive 0 points. increases will be 5% or less annually per question Required Confidentiality Claim Form This completed form is required by TIPS. By submitting a response to this solicitation you agree to download from th e “Attachments” section, complete according to the instructions on the form, then uploading the completed form, wit h any confidential attachments, if applicable, to the “Response Attachments” section titled “Confidentiality Form” in order to provide to TIPS the completed form titled, “CONFIDENTIALITY CLAIM FORM”. By completing this process, you provide us with the information we require to comply with the open record laws of the State of Texas as they ma y apply to your proposal submission. If you do not provide the form with your proposal, an award will not be made if your proposal is qualified for an award, until TIPS has an accurate, completed form from you. Read the form carefully before completing and if you have any questions, email ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ at TIPS at ▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇@t ▇▇▇-▇▇▇.▇▇▇ If the vendor is awarded a contract with TIPS under this solicitation, the vendor agrees to make any Choice of Law c lauses in any contract or agreement entered into between the awarded vendor and with a TIPS member entity to re ad as follows: "Choice of law shall be the laws of the state where the customer resides" or words to that effect. Agreed In the event of litigation or use of any dispute resolution model when resolving disputes with a TIPS member entity a s a result of a transaction between the vendor and TIPS or the TIPS member entity, the Venue for any litigation or ot her agreed upon model shall be in the state and county where the customer resides unless otherwise agreed by the parties at the time the dispute resolution model is decided by the parties. Agreed