EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT: PILOT
I. Date
This Employee Contract is made [date] between:
II. Parties
1. and 2.
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Arpi Aviation, Estonia (?the Employer?)
XX, XX, [address, birth date] (?the Employee?).
III. Preamble
The Employee will be rented out as staff to different airline companies on the basis of a contract between the Employer and such airline company (?the Present Lessee?).
Nothing in this Employment Contract shall be deemed to create any employment relationship between the Employee and the Present Lessee, and consequently the Employee?s only employer from any legal or taxation perspective, shall be the Employer.
IV. Terms and Conditions
During the term of this Agreement, the Employee shall render services at the request of the Employer to the Present Lessee upon the following terms and conditions:
1. General Conditions 1.1 The Employer shall, subject as hereinafter provided, employ the Employee in the capacity of
CPT. 1.2 The duration of the employment is 12 months, as from the time of accession, with a
possibility of extension.
1.3 The Employee shall undertake and perform all such line duties as the Employer requires, in accordance with the from time to time applicable flight time limitations operated by the Present Lessee. The Employee will observe and comply with all instructions and regulations from time-to- time given to him by the Present Lessee.
1.4 In roistering the Employee for duty the Employee shall be entitled to have 8 days off in any full calendar month be allocated in accordance with the Present Lessee?s Flight Time Limitation Scheme (such days off may be Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays). The work pattern will decided by the Present Lessee.
1.4 The Employee is required to clear with the Present Lessee?s Flight Operations Department and have duly authorized in advance individual request for any changes to the published/official roster.
2. Commencement 2.1 The date as may be agreed in writing between the parties.
3. Remuneration
3.1 The salary consists of a fixed and a variable part. The fixed annual salary is NOK 348.000, and the variable salary is NOK 290 per hour. The Employer shall pay the Employee a monthly salary equivalent with 1/12 of the fixed salary, plus hourly pay for actual worked hours each month. The Employee?s bank account details shall be furnished in writing by the Employee to the Employer.
3.2 The salary shall be paid in EURO, converted from NOK based on the official current conversion rate between NOK and EURO each pay day.
3.3 The Employee is exclusively responsible for the payment of taxes in Estonia or any other country in the world, pertaining to any remuneration paid to the Employee by the Employer under this employment contract.
4. Accommodation and Transportation
4.1 The Employee shall be provided by the Employer with the airline standard hotel accommodation or apartment at base of operation and single room hotel accommodation at layover stations other than base at which he is required to perform his duties.
4.2 Notwithstanding clause 4.1, the Employee may choose to provide his own accommodation. If the Employee so chooses, he shall be paid a subsistence/housing allowance of NOK 5.000 per month.
4.3 The Employee shall be provided with suitable means of ground transportation to and from airfields at base and layover stations other than base, pursuant to the Present Lessees instructions and regulations.
4.4 The Employee shall be provided with an airline ticket at commencement and termination of the contract to and from the place of origin of the personnel and base or layover station, pursuant to the Present Lessees instructions and regulations.
4. Licenses and Legal requirements
5.1 The Employee shall produce evidence of all licenses, including personal insurance, held by him to the Employer and take such steps (if any) as may be required to qualify himself under the Estonian laws to undertake all duties assigned to him.
5.2 The Employee will be responsible for maintaining the validity of his flying license, medical, passport and airline pass and to ensure the these documents are carried with him whilst on duty and that these documents be made readily available for inspection by the Employer or by any approved Inspector from the Civil Aviation Authority with whom the Present Lessee holds its Air Operators Certificate or the relevant authority in any other country in which the Employee is required to operate.
5.3 The Employee shall abide by all laws of Estonia and any other state in which he may be required to perform his duties.
5.4 The Employee shall not consume alcoholic beverages of any kind in the period beginning 18 (eighteen) hours before the time at which he is roistered for duty.
5.5 The Present Lessee will add the name of the Employee to the Present Lessee?s Overseas Medical & Repatriation Personal Accident Insurance Policy but only in respect of incidents which may occur whilst the Employee is undertaking duties (excluding roistered days off) on behalf of the Present Lessee.
6. 6.1
Termination and Service Period
A notice of 30 days is required for voluntary termination by both parties.
The Employee recognizes and acknowledges that his services to the Present Lessee are required throughout the entire term of the individual service period and the Employee may not terminate the Contract during the service period unless mutually agreed between the Employee and the Employer. The Employee acknowledges that should he be in breach of the Contract due to his failure to complete the service period it is recognized that the Present Lessee is likely to suffer substantial losses by virtue of the need to engage a replacement pilot to enable the Present Lessee to meet its contractual obligations and in relation to consequential losses if it is unable to do so. The Present Lessee?s losses may be directed at Employer. Accordingly it is agreed that the Employee will be liable to reimburse the Employer for all such costs.
6.2
6.2 Should the service agreement between the Employer and the Present Lessee relative to the provision of the Employee?s services to the Present Lessee be terminated and the Employer cannot offer the Employee another position with any other lessee, the Employer may terminate this Contract according to clause 6.1 above.
5.3 The Employer may terminate this Contract with immediate effect and at any time if the Employee, during the terms of this Contract
6.3.1commits any grave misconduct or misconduct or any conduct tending to bring himself or the Employer or the Present Lessee into disrepute or breach or non-observance of any of the conditions of this Contract,
or
6.3.2without just cause willfully neglects or fails or refuse to carry out any of his duties thereunder,
or 6.3.3is adjudged bankrupt or compounds with his creditors, or
6.3.4 is convicted of any criminal offence, or
6.3.5 fails to pass or maintain the standard Airline Pilots medical, or 6.3.6 fails to pass or maintain the ATPL license, or
6.3.7fails any initial or periodic simulator/aircraft training or proficiency check or line check carried out by or on behalf of the Present Lessee or fail to maintain the required standard.
6.4 If the Employee is terminated in accordance with clause 6.3, the Employee is entitled to so much of his salary as have accrued to the date of such termination without prejudice to any prior subsisting claims of either party.
6.5 The Employee shall, following the end of his services to the Present Lessee, return to the Present Lessee all manuals, items of uniform, identity card and any other items of property issued to the Employee by or on behalf of the Present Lessee. A final clearance certificate from the Present Lessee duly signed by the Employee evidencing that the forgoing requirement has been complied with, will be required by the Employer.
6.6 In the event of this Contract being terminated in accordance with 6.1 6.2 or 6.3 hereto the Employee hereby agrees that the Employer may retain all outstanding allowances and salary payments which are due to the Employee and offset such retained payments against any/all training costs incurred by the Employer by any Present Lessee.
6.6 The Employee agrees that he will not, during the terms of this Contract or for a six month period thereafter, offer himself in direct employment to any Present Lessee without the prior consent and written agreement of the Employer.