To: Daniel Fisher
From: Bernadette Olvera
Date: March 9
Subject: Protective clothing order
Dear Mr. Fisher,
I am writing to ask you to approve my order for protective clothing so that the Site Support Office in Building 2 can prepare the items. This is a scheduled replacement, and the allowance for this cycle is three items. The items I need are listed below with their sizes and quantities.
| Item | Size | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Work jacket | Large | 1 |
| Work pants | 34 | 2 |
| Protective gloves | Medium | 1 |
Your approval is needed before the March 14 closing date, because requests received after that date are held for the next order. I understand that any quantity above the allowance is charged through payroll under Clothing Standard CS-9. Once the items are ready, I will collect them from the supply room window on Level 1.
Thank you,
Bernadette Olvera
Receiving Department
- A. To arrange payment for clothing supplied in earlier cycles
- B. To submit one worker's item request for approval and supply
- C. To report a stock shortage at an on-site window
- D. To announce a revision to a workplace clothing standard
- A. It issues protective clothing to staff at regular intervals.
- B. It requires staff to purchase their own basic clothing.
- C. It stores identical clothing sizes at each of its sites.
- D. It has recently altered the design of its work clothing.
To: Paula Osei
From: Miriam Castellano
Date: March 12
Subject: Results of the spring suggestion round
Dear Ms. Osei,
Of the twenty-six ideas submitted this spring, the one chosen by the panel is yours: labeling the storage cabinets by category so shared items can be found quickly.
Please describe it to your colleagues for about five minutes at the staff meeting on March 20. There is no need to prepare slides or a handout. Several colleagues have already asked how the labeling would work on an ordinary workday, so please allow time for their questions.
Although adoption will begin in the fourth-floor supply room only, extension to the other floors is possible if the three-month trial period goes well.
Miriam Castellano
Coordinator, Workplace Improvement Office
P.S. A gift certificate will also be presented to you at the meeting.
- A. To announce a labeling system for the whole building
- B. To invite an employee to submit an idea this spring
- C. To tell an employee that her idea will be used
- D. To give the date when a prize will be handed out
- A. Ms. Osei should expect a discussion rather than a formal presentation.
- B. Ms. Osei does not have to speak at the March 20 meeting.
- C. Ms. Osei will not have to keep records during the trial period.
- D. Ms. Osei will receive printed materials from the review panel.
Tool Library Opens Two-Week Return Period With No Charges
Overdue equipment accepted at the counter, with borrowing rights restored
PEMBERTON (March 3) — The Pemberton Community Tool Library will accept overdue equipment without charge from March 16 through March 27. Late fees of 40 cents per day already recorded on those loans will be canceled for any item handed back within that period.
Records show that many membership accounts have not been able to take out equipment, because tools borrowed last season were never returned. --[1]--. Once the missing item is checked in, the restriction is removed the same day.
--[2]--. Items must be handed to staff at the service counter while the counter is open. --[3]--. The unattended after-hours return slot may not be used during this period, because each tool is inspected as it is received.
"Every ladder or sander left in a garage is one that another member cannot borrow, and our volunteers can check in only so many items each evening," said Ivan Lindqvist, equipment program coordinator.
Powered garden machinery and any item outstanding for more than 180 days remain subject to the usual daily charge. --[4]--.
Questions may be directed to 555-0142. The counter is staffed from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M., Tuesday through Saturday.
- A. To recruit additional volunteers for inspecting returned equipment
- B. To announce an extension of the counter's staffed hours
- C. To explain how new members can begin borrowing tools
- D. To publicize a brief period for returning items without charge
- A. Bring the equipment to a staff member during open hours
- B. Leave the equipment in the after-hours slot at any time
- C. Pay a reduced daily charge on the outstanding loans
- D. Show the original loan record to a staff member
- A. [1]
- B. [2]
- C. [3]
- D. [4]
Service category: Office furnishing rental (Tiverton Office Rentals)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Rental period: 9 weeks
Account type: Business (verified)
Posted: March 14
Nothing I read before booking told me where the limits of this arrangement lie, so I am setting them out here.
Our lease ended nine weeks before the new floor was ready, and buying desks we would then store would have cost more than renting. We took 24 pieces. Delivery staff removed the protective covers on arrival.
The desks and seating were sound. The three storage cabinets, though, were too shallow to hold our files upright. An exchange must be requested while at least fourteen days of the term remain, and we were inside that window, so I asked for deeper units. They arrived four days later rather than the next business day. I claimed nothing off the invoice and booked a second short rental in February.
The total came to $2,150, which our relocation budget covered easily, though delivery and pickup are billed separately and the rate list does not say so.
In my view, then, this kind of rental works well for short projects that need standard desks and seating, but it is a poor fit for teams with unusual storage needs or for terms of under three weeks.
Postings appear only after this site verifies an invoice.
- A. To question a charge that appeared on the final invoice
- B. To report a fault in one of the items delivered
- C. To set out which needs this kind of rental can meet
- D. To explain how postings on the site are checked
- A. The reviewer regrets choosing this company for the rental
- B. The reviewer considers the matter to be adequately settled
- C. The reviewer finds the total high for the quantity supplied
- D. The reviewer expects part of the payment to be returned
- A. paid
- B. concealed
- C. wrapped
- D. included
Beckworth Art Supply
Celebrating Twenty Years on Halstead Street
Anniversary Week: Monday, June 8, through Saturday, June 13
For twenty years, painters, students, and hobbyists in this neighborhood have shopped at our counter, and we are grateful to every one of you. --[1]--.
A gift for you. During anniversary week, a commemorative pocket sketchbook showing our original storefront will be waiting at the front counter. Any purchase, of any size, entitles you to one, and we ask that each customer take only one copy. --[2]--.
Your work on our walls. From the first day of anniversary week, the long wall beside the front window, cleared when we moved our paper racks to the back of the store, will be given over to work by our customers. Our staff will mount every piece, so you need only bring the work in. Pieces may be no larger than 40 by 50 centimeters and must be unframed, since each one is held with clips, and all work must be handed in by Friday, June 5. The display will be taken down on Saturday, June 20, and pieces may be picked up at the counter from the following Monday. --[3]--.
Thank you for shopping with us, and we look forward to seeing your work. --[4]--.
The staff of Beckworth Art Supply
- A. It requires a minimum purchase for the free sketchbook.
- B. It will display customers' work beyond anniversary week.
- C. It recently moved to a larger space on Halstead Street.
- D. It provides a framing service for submitted artwork.
- A. To apologize for a recent change in the store's layout
- B. To ask customers to help prepare the display area
- C. To explain how space for the display became available
- D. To announce that a larger selection of paper is stocked
- A. [1]
- B. [2]
- C. [3]
- D. [4]
Group thread: Kelbrook sample intake
Tuesday, June 10
Marisol Cadena (1:40 P.M.): Merton Grill called. Their kitchen manager took four water samples at nine this morning and left them at our north unit instead of here. She needs results by Friday.
Tobias Ruiz (1:44 P.M.): Nothing came in from the grill on this morning's pickup round, so she must have left the box at the door. Graham, is it on your intake shelf?
Graham Purcell (1:49 P.M.): Found it at the back, with the grill's name on the lid.
Marisol Cadena (1:52 P.M.): Is a collection time written on the bottles?
Graham Purcell (1:55 P.M.): No, only the date. I'm at the north unit until six, and my next shift at the main site is tomorrow morning. The machine here is out for servicing, so nothing can be run at this end. I'll write the box up on the intake sheet once you decide.
Tobias Ruiz (1:58 P.M.): I could pick the box up on my four o'clock run and bring it over.
Graham Purcell (2:01 P.M.): One minute, someone's at the door.
Marisol Cadena (2:04 P.M.): That won't get us very far. Your run doesn't reach the main site until after five, and water that old tells us nothing.
Graham Purcell (2:07 P.M.): Back. Two conditions apply before we can accept water. First, it has to reach one of our sites within eight hours of being taken. Second, every bottle has to be sealed and marked with the time of collection. Neither applies here.
Marisol Cadena (2:12 P.M.): I'll ask for a fresh set first thing tomorrow, and mailing them is not an option.
- A. Food service
- B. Package delivery
- C. Laboratory testing
- D. Equipment repair
- A. He will drive the four o'clock pickup route today.
- B. He is expecting a coworker to pick up the box today.
- C. He cannot take the box to the main site today.
- D. He has already entered the box on the intake sheet.
- A. They must be sealed within eight hours of arrival.
- B. They must indicate when the water was taken.
- C. They must carry a reference number on the lid.
- D. They must be sent to the main site by mail.
- A. She is worried about the equipment at the north unit.
- B. She is impatient about the interruption at the door.
- C. She wants more details about the delivery schedule.
- D. She thinks moving the box would not solve the problem.
To: Denise Voss
From: Martin Hale, Open Day Coordinator, Plant Office
Date: April 28
Subject: Your Family Open Day guest registration
Dear Ms. Voss,
Thank you for sending your guest details for the Foxley Engineering Company Family Open Day on Saturday, May 17. The four guests you have registered are listed below. This is the full number allowed for each employee; a fifth name would go on a waiting list, with the place confirmed by our office one week before the visit.
| Guest name | Age group | Meal |
|---|---|---|
| Ruth Voss | 12 and over | Standard |
| Peter Voss | 12 and over | Vegetarian |
| Ida Voss | Under 12 | Standard |
| Felix Voss | Under 12 | Standard |
To complete your registration, please sign the attached guest form and hand it in at the Plant Office by Friday, May 2. Forms sent by internal mail cannot be accepted. Once your form arrives, our staff will print badges for your guests and send your meal choices to the cafeteria.
A midday meal in the site cafeteria is included with every guest place at no charge, while printed group photographs are sold at the reception desk for $6 each. Please note that employee parking permits do not cover guest vehicles, so your guests should use the visitor spaces beside the main gate.
Although the assembly area is part of the standard tour, guests in the under-12 group may not enter it. Those guests will wait in the display room with you, and safety glasses will be lent at the assembly area entrance to the guests who go in. By signing the form, you accept responsibility for the conduct of your guests during the visit.
Sincerely,
Martin Hale
Open Day Coordinator, Plant Office
- A. To ask an employee to choose meals for the cafeteria
- B. To tell an employee that one guest is on a waiting list
- C. To gather an employee's views on a visit that has ended
- D. To confirm the relatives an employee will bring to a site event
- A. Take a signed form to one particular office
- B. Print a badge for each of her guests
- C. Add a fifth name to the waiting list
- D. Show the e-mail at the main gate
- A. A printed group photograph
- B. A permit for parking a car
- C. A pair of protective glasses
- D. One meal on the day of the visit
- A. It is not included on the tour route
- B. It will be off limits to two of the listed guests
- C. It may be entered only by guests under 12
- D. It is where guests will be served their meal
To: Mr. Douglas Peralta
From: Repairs Counter, Mowbray Works
Date: March 20
Subject: Result of your purchase protection claim
Claim reference: RC-5140
Thank you for leaving your machine with us on March 12 with your completed claim form. You mentioned then that you plan to travel to work on it each morning once it is returned.
The rear hub has failed and no longer turns freely. The rim above it is bent and several spokes are loose. The seat and the handlebar grips show ordinary wear only, and the helmet you left with the machine is undamaged. We forwarded our findings to the maker's support office, which has ruled that a hub failure of this kind falls inside the plan but impact damage to a rim does not. Your claim has therefore been decided in two parts, as set out below.
Covered by the plan: a new rear hub, supplied and installed at no charge.
Not covered by the plan: straightening the rim and replacing spokes, $58.00, of which $19.00 is labor.
Please approve the second line in writing before we begin the work. We can hold the machine for ten days. Without a reply by March 30, you will need to pick it up unrepaired.
The replacement hub came from our regional warehouse and is already here. Your purchase record was already on file, so we did not need to ask you for it. We will also check the seat height at no charge before the machine leaves us, and you will find our counter beside the luggage shop.
Ellis Karvonen
Repairs Counter, Mowbray Works
P.S. We will take care of the labor portion shown on the second line ourselves, as the machine has waited here longer than we promised.
- A. Suitcases
- B. Helmets
- C. Sewing machines
- D. Bicycles
- A. Deliver a completed claim form to the counter
- B. Use the machine for his daily commute
- C. Order a replacement hub from the regional warehouse
- D. Pick up the machine without having it repaired
- A. To learn which repairs the plan would pay for
- B. To have a replacement hub sent to the shop
- C. To ask for proof of the customer's purchase
- D. To arrange a free check of the seat height
- A. The customer will not be charged for any of the rim and spoke work.
- B. The maker's support office has agreed to cover the rim work.
- C. The customer will pay less than the amount shown as not covered.
- D. The counter staff will look after the machine until it is picked up.
Oakbourne Cleaning Services
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After-Hours Cleaning
Our after-hours service cleans the carpets and floors of shops and small offices while they are closed, so your business is never disturbed. To book a visit, send us a request at least seven days before the date you would like. In it, list each area to be treated, such as the sales floor, staff room, or offices, and name anything in each area that the crew must leave untouched.
Your request must also name one of our three visit times. Because each time comes with its own access arrangement, please choose the one that matches how your premises can be opened and locked.
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. — a member of your staff stays on the premises throughout
9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. — a keyholder lets the crew in and returns at the end of the visit to lock up
4:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. — a set of keys is left at our office one business day beforehand
Finally, describe the entrance the crew will use, since it sets the arrival allowance, which is the time we set aside before work begins. A ground-floor door with parking beside it needs 15 minutes, while a door reached by stairs only, or one with parking more than 100 yards away, needs 45 minutes.
A few conditions apply to every booking. Our crews bring their own machines and water, so nothing needs to be supplied at the premises. After a visit, treated carpet must not be walked on for six hours. If your plans change, a booked date may be changed once, with three business days' notice.
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The late evening slot suited us
Rating: 5 out of 5 — service used: after-hours carpet cleaning
Colin Radcliffe, owner of a toy shop, Norbury district
Our shop closes at eight, and I did not want machines running around customers, so I chose the later evening time. I let the crew in myself at nine and came back at 12:30 to lock up after them. Our unit sits above a bakery and has no elevator, so the crew carried every machine up two flights from the street, and work on the carpet still began before ten.
They worked around the display shelves with real care, and nothing was marked. That is not the main reason we changed suppliers, though. The company we used last year told us to clear the floor ourselves before each visit, which kept two of my staff late the night before. This crew moves the furniture out and puts it back as part of the job.
Would book again: Yes
- A. Choose the hours when the crew will work
- B. Extend the time allowed before work starts
- C. Move a booked visit to a later date
- D. Identify objects that must not be disturbed
- A. It permits a booked date to be moved twice.
- B. It keeps a set of keys for each customer.
- C. It brings everything its crews need to work.
- D. It returns to inspect the carpet after six hours.
- A. He arranged for an employee to stay throughout the visit.
- B. He left a set of keys at the office in advance.
- C. He moved the display shelves aside before the crew arrived.
- D. He acted as the keyholder his chosen time slot required.
- A. It has a ground-floor door with nearby parking.
- B. It qualifies for the longer arrival allowance.
- C. It had its own employees carry the machines upstairs.
- D. It serves customers late into the night.
- A. It treats his display shelves with greater care.
- B. It completes each visit in a single evening.
- C. It prepares the floor area itself before cleaning.
- D. It offers visits after his shop has closed.
Staff Facilities Office
Notice SL-1187
Posted March 4, second floor facilities area
After the renovation, the storage banks have been re-lettered, and units are being assigned again for the year beginning April 1. Before then, old units must be emptied by March 27, and anything left inside will be removed. Read across the chart below to find your bank, the size of unit it holds, who it is for, and where the key is picked up.
| Bank | Unit size | Assigned to | Keys picked up from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank C, first floor, north corridor | Full height | Staff on site every business day, floors 1-2 | Mail room, ground floor |
| Bank D, third floor, beside the west stairwell | Half height | Staff on site on set days, two holders to a unit | Print room, second floor |
| Bank F, fourth floor, copier alcove | Full height | Staff on site every business day, floors 3-4 | Staff entrance desk |
| Bank G, basement | Full height | Department equipment, one key per team | Staff Facilities Office |
In Banks C and F, a full-height unit is held by one person and is offered only to staff who are on site every business day. Staff who attend on set days only are paired, two holders to each half-height unit. In every case, no key is issued until the signed shared-use record for that unit has been handed in.
Cynthia Barlowe, who kept the holder register until February, has moved to the north site, so additions and changes now go to Beatrice Ndiaye.
Questions: Staff Facilities Office, extension 246.
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To: Yolanda Prieto
From: Malcolm Hutchins
Sent: March 18
Reference: SL-1187
Copy to: Bridget Solano
For the current holder of storage unit 12:
Your application for a full-height single unit has been reviewed and cannot be granted for the coming year. Instead, unit 7 has been allotted to you and to Bridget Solano together. The bank concerned is the one on the third floor, beside the west stairwell. Each of you keeps a key, and both keys are issued at the same time.
The shared-use record must carry both signatures before any key leaves this office. Please sign the attached copy and pass it to Ms. Solano for hers. Your old key goes to the staff entrance desk once your present unit is empty.
Malcolm Hutchins
Staff Facilities Office
Extension 246
P.S. The chart posted in the facilities area gives the pickup point for every bank.
- A. To announce that a building renovation will soon begin
- B. To report that a staff member has moved to another site
- C. To set out who receives which storage unit this year
- D. To remind staff that signed forms must be handed in
- A. The employee who has transferred to another site
- B. The employee who now keeps track of unit assignments
- C. The employee who will share Ms. Prieto's unit
- D. The employee who asked for a full-height unit
- A. To grant a request for a larger unit
- B. To confirm that two keys have already been issued
- C. To ask Ms. Prieto to select a co-holder
- D. To explain what must happen before a key is released
- A. She is not in the office every business day.
- B. She must empty her present unit by April 1.
- C. She has held unit 7 in a previous year.
- D. She will pick up both keys for the shared unit.
- A. At the mail room
- B. At the print room
- C. At the staff entrance desk
- D. At the Staff Facilities Office
Workplace First-Aid Refresher Program — Reference FR-2071
Sessions: March 16 to March 27
| Group | Session days | Site | Who may join | ▲ | ■ | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Monday to Wednesday | North Site | All certificate holders | ▲ | ■ | 12 |
| R2 | Thursday and Friday | North Site | All certificate holders | ▲ | ■ | 12 |
| R3 | Thursday and Friday | South Site | All certificate holders | ▲ | 12 | |
| R4 | Thursday and Friday | South Site | Team leaders only ✱ | ▲ | ■ | 12 |
▲ basic care review, included in every group
■ emergency response module, required for holders who staff a first-aid post
✱ restricted group; other holders may not enroll
Group sizes are fixed; later requests go to the next program
Billing categories: standard, certificate valid on the session date; late, certificate expired before that date; visitor, no certificate held
Holders may enroll at either site
Enrollment is arranged only through the Site Services Office.
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To: Carla Thibault
From: Gavin Mulvaney
Copy: Frances Zamora
Date: March 5
Subject: Loading bay cover and refresher places
Reference: FR-2071
Carla,
First, the refresher chart is now posted here. My certificate lapses on March 14, so I need a refresher place, but my choices are limited. I am on the loading bay Monday through Wednesday and cannot be released, and my post requires the emergency response module. I am not a team leader, so only one group is open to me.
Second, the site must keep four employees with valid first-aid certificates on duty, so please take the first-aid calls for the loading bay from March 15 until my new certificate is issued.
Finally, Frances has a copy because no outside provider is paid here until she has checked the figures against the site's spending limits. The statement lists your place under a group code that is not the one you named, so please confirm which group you joined.
I will send both confirmations to the office on Friday.
G. M.
Warehouse Assistant, North Site
Extension 236
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Brantwood Safety Training
Account reference: 4482-R
Billing period: March 1 to March 31
Ordering office: Site Services Office, Ravensdale Packaging
Contact: accounts desk, extension 402
| Holder | Group | Rate category | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carla Thibault | R3 | Standard | Enrolled and confirmed |
| Hector Ortega | R1 | Standard | Place held; holder name may be changed |
| Louise Braithwaite | R4 | Late | Full module repeated |
Subtotal: $540.00
Adjustment: standing account credit, $45.00
Total due: $495.00
1. Payment is due within twenty-one days of the billing date.
2. A named holder may be replaced by another certificate holder if we receive written notice at least three business days before the first session.
Please quote the account reference with payment.
- A. An outside training provider
- B. A company budget officer
- C. A first-aid team leader
- D. A warehouse assistant
- A. It has already been confirmed by the provider.
- B. It must be paid for within three business days.
- C. It requires the full module to be repeated.
- D. It may be reassigned if advance notice is given.
- A. R1
- B. R2
- C. R3
- D. R4
- A. She was billed at a reduced amount.
- B. She allowed her certificate to lapse.
- C. She still holds a valid certificate.
- D. She will repeat the entire module.
- A. Each one meets at the same site.
- B. Each one is open only to team leaders.
- C. Each one includes the emergency response module.
- D. Each one accepts the same number of people.
Launch Stock Apportionment — Reference AL-3164
Circulation: all store managers | Issued: April 5 by the Merchandising Office, Fielding Home Stores
The maker of our new tableware range can produce only about half the quantity our branches requested for the opening week. Allotments have therefore been set from each branch's recorded display group and not from the amount ordered. The attached listing replaces the sheet circulated on April 2, which showed the Padworth entry twice.
No allotment is held automatically. Every store manager must confirm in writing to this office that the branch will take its full figure. The closing date is not the same for all branches, and any units not claimed by a group's closing date pass to the branches of the group above, in the order in which they are listed.
On the attached listing, your branch's closing date is printed in the heading for your display group. A branch marked with an asterisk has an extended stockroom and receives its delivery one week before the rest of its group.
Clara Nilsson, Merchandising Controller
Internal line 4120
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Launch Stock Allotment Listing — Reference AL-3164
Display Group 1 — claim by April 8, supplied week of April 21
Hazelmere: 32 units
Upton: 32 units
Display Group 2 — claim by April 10, supplied week of April 28
Millbrook: 20 units
Sedgely*: 20 units
Display Group 3 — claim by April 15, supplied week of May 5
Rothwell: 12 units
Padworth: 12 units
Display Group 4 — claim by April 17, supplied week of May 12
Vinehall: 6 units
Dunmore: 6 units
Footnote: A further 40 units are held in reserve at the central warehouse and are not allotted to any branch.
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To: Merchandising Office
From: Gideon Mensah
Date: April 12
Subject: Entry for this branch under Reference AL-3164
Attachment referred to: Launch Stock Allotment Listing
To the Merchandising Office:
The listing shows this branch in Display Group 3, which follows the floor plan recorded at our space review two years ago. Since the remodeling was completed in February, however, our display area for tableware is the same size as the area at Millbrook, and the two stores now hold the same number of display shelves.
I would be grateful if the register could be brought up to date and our figure reissued before the closing date that applies to this branch. Please let me know what confirmation the office requires.
Gideon Mensah
Store Manager
Rothwell
Copy: Ursula Bianchi, District Manager
- A. An earlier version of the listing was inaccurate.
- B. The maker cannot supply everything the branches asked for.
- C. Branches with extended stockrooms are supplied first.
- D. Some managers have not yet replied in writing.
- A. It is printed next to each branch's name.
- B. It falls one week before the branch's delivery week.
- C. It was given in the sheet circulated on April 2.
- D. It varies according to a branch's display group.
- A. Padworth
- B. Hazelmere
- C. Sedgely
- D. Rothwell
- A. To have his branch's figure revised before its deadline
- B. To confirm that his branch will take its full figure
- C. To report that his branch has been listed twice
- D. To ask for an earlier delivery week for his branch
- A. 12 units
- B. 20 units
- C. 32 units
- D. 40 units
To: All staff who claim work travel costs
From: Harriet Vance
Date: August 24
Subject: Entering your own travel costs
Attached: Staff Travel Payment Rates, Version 3
Dear colleagues,
From September 1, travel costs are entered by the traveler, and paper claim forms are no longer accepted.
Three steps apply. First, enter each journey on a separate line with its date, the way you traveled and the distance covered. Second, ask your supervisor to mark the line as agreed. Nothing is printed for signature, and no paper reaches this office. Third, use the attached sheet for the amount payable and for the kinds of travel that need a receipt.
A line is included in the following month's payment only if it is complete — entered, agreed and carrying any receipt required — by the 25th of the month. Payments are made in the second week of each month.
Questions to the extension below.
Harriet Vance
Employee Payments Office
Extension 4120
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Staff Travel Payment Rates — Version 3, in force from September 1
| Travel category | Payment basis | Amount payable | Receipt required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Own car, self-driven | Per mile | 32 cents* | No |
| Bicycle | Per mile | 12 cents | No |
| Train or scheduled bus | Per journey | Ticket price | Yes |
| Taxi | Per journey | Meter fare** | Yes |
* A journey longer than 50 miles is paid at 38 cents a mile for its whole distance.
** Payable only where this office agreed to the taxi beforehand. Without that agreement, only the train or bus amount is paid.
Rates are reviewed each January.
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To: Nina Whitfield
From: Lydia Steadman
Date: September 26
Subject: Your travel claim
Claim reference: TR-3096
Dear Ms. Whitfield,
Thank you for the four journeys entered under the reference above.
Three lines are complete and agreed by your supervisor. They include the 70-mile drive you made to the training day in your own car. These three will be paid in October.
The fourth line is not yet complete. You bought your tickets at the station, and travel of that kind is paid only when the ticket is attached to the line. You wrote that you will scan it this week, after this month's cutoff, so that amount will reach you in a later payment.
The Saved Journey list may help you. It keeps the details of routes you use often, so the same distance need not be typed again.
L. S.
Sent from the travel claim system.
- A. By signing a printed copy
- B. By sending a form to the office
- C. By confirming the entry electronically
- D. By attaching a required receipt
- A. At 12 cents a mile
- B. At 32 cents a mile
- C. At 38 cents a mile
- D. At the price of a ticket
- A. They are paid without a receipt.
- B. They are not always paid in full.
- C. They are paid at a rate per mile.
- D. They are paid only above a set distance.
- A. It will be paid in November.
- B. It will be paid in October.
- C. It will be paid at 32 cents a mile.
- D. It will be paid without a receipt.
- A. It sends a claim line to a supervisor.
- B. It reminds users of the monthly cutoff.
- C. It attaches scanned tickets to a line.
- D. It stores the details of regular journeys.
