Perdiem at home base while on duty

[dirk85]

I beg to differ on your definition of per diem, at least when you say "away from base over night."

Doing 6 legs with the final landing in your base does entitle you to the per diem, because you most likely have spent money from your pocket to have kind of a lunch and/or dinner.
You can establish a minimum amount of hours to be entitled to that, but not getting it just because you land in your home base does not make too much sense to me.
Luckily so far I haven't heard or worked for companies interpreting the rules that way, and I cannot say I have worked for the most generous companies in the business…

I am speaking in this case of contract pilots, not freelancers.