Seasonal traffic. 1. An employee on a passenger vessel engaged in seasonal traffic is credited with the time he or she has been employed during successive sailing seasons on passenger vessels in seasonal traffic. In such cases, 11 months constitute one year when calculating the seniority allowance.
Seasonal traffic. An employee on a passenger ship engaged in seasonal traffic is credited with the time the employee has been employed during successive sailing seasons on passenger ships in seasonal traffic. In such cases, 11 months constitute one (1) year when calculating seniority allowances. Interruptions due to reasons not attributable to the employee If an employee’s employment is terminated due to reasons not attributable to the employee, such as the bankruptcy of a shipowner, shipowner going out of business, assignment of business or reasons referred to in chapter 12, section 4 of the Seafarer’s Employment Contracts Act, the employee is entitled to have the seniority allowances that were valid when the employee’s previous employment terminated to be taken into account in the next employment relationship. Oil transport allowance
Seasonal traffic. On passenger vessels to be used for seasonal traffic, the shipowner, the shipmaster and the navigation officer are to, at the beginning of their employment, agree upon the wage benefits and other terms of employment for the unrigging time. In the event that an agreement referred to above in Subsection 1 has not been made, employment is considered to continue and the shipmaster is entitled to basic wages including potential seniority allowances. This service time is to be considered when calculating the time to be included in earning seniority allowances.
