For work on construction sites, in the marine and shipbuilding industry, in electrical engineering and cleaning, where accommodation away from home is necessary. The employer must cover the necessary travel costs at the beginning and end of the assignment. This must be covered in accordance with an additional agreement between the employer and the employee.
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Before the employer sends an employee on assignment outside his/her place of residence, the issues of food and accommodation should be agreed. Generally, the employer must provide food and accommodation, but a fixed allowance rate can be agreed, payment based on invoice and the like.
Obligation to cover travel, food and accommodation costs applies only to travel within Norway.
In the case of employees who carry out road transport of goods (vehicles with a total weight over 3,5 tons) as part of transport orders with planned accommodation. The allowance is paid according to what Norwegian authorities each time they consider it tax-free per day. For the first 8 hours you pay 1/3 of the per diem rate.
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