Floating-rig crews get new pay scales and rising pension contributions

Employees on mobile offshore units, platform drilling and catering on permanently placed installations on the Norwegian shelf work under the Flyteriggavtalen between Norges Rederiforbund (NR) and LO/Forbundet Styrke.Styrke It runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2028Styrke, continuing yearly absent two months' written noticeStyrke, and bars the parties from agreeing deviating terms for permanently employed staff in its area with other employers.

Ordinary working time caps at 12 hours a dayStyrke and 33.6 a week averaged over up to a yearStyrke, normally as two weeks on and four off. Extra or extended stays pay overtime at a 65 per cent supplement on 1/146 of monthly salaryStyrke; plan deviations add kr 950 a day up to kr 6 650Styrke. Shift changes within a stay pay 6 or 12 hours at that supplementStyrke. Night work draws kr 118.50 an hour outside day working timeStyrke. Holiday duty pays kr 2 400 a day on the listed days plus 1 and 17 MayStyrke. Monthly minimum salaries from 1 June 2026 run from group B levels up to kr 91 900 in group 2, kr 98 324 in group 1, kr 106 033 for drilling and production managers and kr 108 602 for installation managersStyrke, based on 1 460 annual hours and 12 per cent holiday payStyrke. A kr 1 000 monthly competence supplementStyrke applies for listed extra qualifications from the same dateStyrke, pro rata to post percentage, frozen on other grounds until the 2032 main settlementStyrke. Safety leaders hired after 1 June 2026 without relevant competence sit in group B, with it in group AStyrke. Notice is three months in groups 0 through B and six for installation managers with ten years' serviceStyrke.

The defined-contribution pension pays 4 per cent of the base between 0 G and 7.1 GStyrke plus 15 per cent between 7.1 G and 12 GStyrke, the base being scale salary plus night supplementStyrke. From 1 January 2027 the lower-bracket rate rises to 5 per centStyrke, then by one point each 1 January in 2028 and 2029Styrke. Seafarers' pension, the private-sector AFP scheme, the 1960–1969 cohort life annuity and the 1954–1959 top-up to AFP plus 1 G capped at 66 per cent of scale salary continue alongsideStyrke. Sick employees keep full ordinary salary up to twelve monthsStyrke within the 6 G folketrygden ceilingStyrke; parental leave pays 80 or 100 per cent over the 56 or 46 benefit weeksStyrke. Time off runs two weeks on, four off with 35 holiday days inside free periodsStyrke. The parties urge advancing sick pay where companies do not, without differential treatment against shore administration.

Hiring-in is discussed with the elected representatives first, with equal terms under arbeidsmiljøloven section 14-12 a except pensionsStyrke. Welfare leave pays up to 7 days for death or documented family illnessStyrke and 14 days at birthStyrke, counting only on-stay days. The rehire preference runs two years from notice expiryStyrke, to age 60 on mobile units and 62 in platform drillingStyrke. Legal basis: Flyteriggavtalen NR 2026–2028 between Norges Rederiforbund and LO/Forbundet Styrke with its HovedavtaleStyrke, whose pension terms invoke lov om innskuddspensjon i arbeidsforhold and whose sickness and parental terms invoke folketrygdloven sections 8-29 and 14.9.