1.5 Meals
1.5.1 Overseas Travel
Per meal allowance is as mentioned below. No receipt is required.
Breakfast - 600 baht
Lunch - 300 baht
Dinner - 1,200 baht
If a meal is provided at no charge to the employee, such as breakfast included in hotel cost, or is
consumed at a company facility or at home, employee is not entitled to a meal allowance.
Exception will be allowed for the meal expenses incurred by AAT employee at a company facility,
where meal is at employee expense, e.g., AAT employees on travel to Japan to work at Hiroshima
Plant will have lunch at the factory where receipts are not available.
Alternatively, employees can claim actual meal expenses with original receipt attached in a day up
to a total daily meal allowance shown on Exhibit B.
The employees must elect to be on an actual expense or on per meal allowance basis for each day.
An employee cannot mix per meal allowance with actual expenses in the same day.
1.5.2 Domestic Travel
Per meal allowance is as mentioned below. No receipts are required.
THB 40 for breakfast
THB 100 for lunch
THB 100 for dinner
Meal expenses exceeding these per meal allowances require original receipts limited to 600 Baht
per day. Meals at company facilities or where available without charge to the employees (such as
breakfasts included with hotel stay, on an airplane or at a conference etc.) are not eligible for meal
allowance. No meal allowance for lunch is eligible for travels from Lake Rajada Complex to AAT
facilities.
1.5.3 When a Ford ISS/ISE employee is staying at a hotel/serviced apartment in Thailand with
cooking facilities provided, the approved daily meal per diem rates for accommodation with cooking
facilities are; adult -- THB 680/day, child under 12 -- THB 340/day. The daily meal per diem rates
for stays without cooking facilities are; breakfast THB 300, lunch THB 170, dinner THB 700
(children under 12 are allowed one half the allowance specified). Daily per diem rates will be
reduced to THB 680 and THB 340 after 60 days in country regardless of whether the employee
moves into accommodation with cooking facilities.
1.5.4 Employees will not be reimbursed for meal costs when meals are provided by the Company,
parent companies, host of a business function, airline, or hotel.