The following characteristics are indicators of
itinerant work:
- Travel is a fundamental part of the employee's work.
- A "web" of work places exists in the employee's regular employment, that is, the employee has no fixed place of work.
- The employee must regularly work at more than one work site before returning to his or her usual place of residence.
- The employee has a degree of uncertainty of location in his or her employment (that is, no long term plan and no regular pattern exists).
- The employee is required to carry bulky equipment from home to different work sites.
- The employer provides an allowance in recognition of the employee's need to travel continually between different work sites.
(adapted from Australian Government,
Income tax: employees carrying out itinerant work, visited 2010-02-24)
