An announced strike at the mobile offshore units was called off after trade union Industri Energi and the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association agreed on a mediation result that gives employees on the mobile offshore units a solid increase in salary, starting 1 June 2019. The result ensures employees encompassed by the Collective Agreement for the mobile offshore units a general increase in wages, holiday allowance included, of 3.6%, at a minimum of NOK 24,679. For the group individually remunerated in the respective companies, a wage supplement is given within a limit of 3.6% on average, however, so that each person individually paid shall be guaranteed a wage increase of 2.6%.
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