I could start rumours about Fugro wanting to issue contracts that pay a basic and offshore rate but without them specifying how many days you have to work in the year, somewhere around 200 is the average being their normal response. Does this mean that we work 150 days or 250 das for the same salary?
Then again that would be wrong of me, I have no idea been offshore for a while, but keep an eye on the small print.
Be safe.
I can’t really say anything about current harmonisation details. Im sure there are others on here who can.
Regarding the above contract, all Fugro contracts since 2005 onwards have been of salary plus offshore allowance with NO mention of a limit of days as we used to have. If you do 250 days you get 250 days of offshore allowance – think of the salary as a "retainer" 😕
As an edit, anyone who does not wish to work a large number of days would be recommended to read up on their rights under the Working Time Directive. Yes, I know parts of it are being contested by some of the companies, but thats mainly holiday pay, but the WTD is still law,no matter what companies say about it.
There is a finite limit of how much you can be made to work offshore under the WTD – THAT is what to use to stop you doing too many days (ROUGHLY it is 192 days a year, you need to check it out yourself)
