Slurry operators, hotel
bookings, narcotics, contractual pension scheme (AFP) and then some are
subjects being discussed.
Slurry operators
”Gallant”
The company informed that
they would terminate the use of own slurry operators on ”Mærsk Gallant”. MAF,
of course, will not accept any possible outsourcing. The matter is to be
discussed at the next meeting.
Then we hope the company will tell us another story, if not then we need
to ”beat the drums”.
Hotel
bookings
We've had some inquiries
from members about the selection of hotels at out-/homebound travels. We have
requested the company and got the following reply:
Maersk Drilling Norge AS has an agreement
with Choice hotels in Stavanger.
·
If you need a hotel at crew change the Quality Hotel Residence should be
used.
·
Deviations can be made if the hotel is fully booked - then the Quality
Airport Hotel is preferred.
·
The employee is not supposed to choose freely.
The reason why the employees may not freely
choose their hotel reservations is that the company sees significant advantages
to having a ‘contract hotel’. Neither Rica Airport or the Quality Airport Hotel
has the capacity to be a crew change hotel for Maersk Drilling Norway AS.
Benefits of an ’agreement hotel’ are:
- The
volume is directed towards one place and the company can
negotiate a good price
-
At fog situations or at other occasions where it is difficult to get hotel
rooms, an ’agreement hotel’ will make great efforts and put lot of work in
order to provide rooms for our employees.
-
Rooms are reserved for our employees on days we have crew changes
and so have needs for accommodation.
-
We are contacted in advance of major events in the city so that rooms are
being reserved according to our needs.
- The
crew is gathered in one hotel, a great benefit to the administration
at fog situations and other helicopter
delays in relation to whether the members of the crew is staying at different
hotels.
We are informed of a restart of an airport
shuttle (Hotel & CorporateTravels) between Stavanger Airport and Sandnes.
Information will be sent to the rigs when further details are available.
Drugs / addictive medicine
From 1 January 2011 new
regulations was introduced about the abuse of drugs and addictive medicine for
offshore personnel. The rules are considerably
stricter. We have requested the company what this will mean for the individual
employees, MDN will revert on the matter when they have checked this out with
their sources. Otherwise, you can
even check the manual which is published by The Norwegian Directorate of Health
on the matter.
AFP, contractual pension scheme, for shore based
personnel
MAF claimed for a
Collective Agreement for land based personnel in May 2005, the same year this
was approved by the MDN / NSA. After one of the former employees has left the
labor market, the question about whether the company is covered or not, by the
APF (contractual pension scheme) appeared. Pursuant to the MAF’s claim all
personnel working at the office are now covered by the AFP scheme, member of
MAF or non member.
Else..
Otherwise, it is mentioned
that we are working with a number of individual cases. We will also sign an
agreement for the stay at ship yard in Hirtshals for “Guardian” at the next
meeting.