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The contract includes an option for hook-up and commissioning of the processing and accommodation platforms in Aker Solutions has been awarded the contract for hook-up and commissioning of the riser platform on the field centre in Kicking off in the summer of the hook-up work offshore represents the final and crucial phase prior to first oil on the Johan Sverdrup field.
In this phase the. Two mobile accommodation facilities in addition to the Johan Sverdrup accommodation platform combined have the capacity to accommodate more than 1, people offshore. The entire Johan Sverdrup development puts the industry to the test again due to the size of the project.
The Johan Sverdrup commissioning will be the most complex and extensive commissioning project offshore that Statoil has ever been responsible for over its 40 years as an operator on the NCS. The press is invited to the signing ceremony at Statoil Business Centre, Forus, today at Please notify Ola Anders Skauby, tlf. The page ' ' is not available in the site.
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Click 'Submit' to go to the site home page or close this dialog to continue in the site. The page ' ' is not available in language. You have to protect your business from litigation. Love contracts may enable legally safe sex in the workplace, but they're about as romantic as nooky in the office supply room. In the typical progression of a relationship -- from establishing exclusivity to meeting family to saying "I love you" -- where exactly does "We must sign this legal document so we can protect our company in case I freak out and make your life a living hell" fit in?
Here's how they're supposed to work: Once you and a co-worker become an item, you declare your status to a supervisor, who sprints to human resources, which then calls legal. Then you and your "more than a friend" sign a document claiming that you are in a consensual relationship and are not being sexually harassed. The contract also states that if you do begin to feel uncomfortable, you agree to follow company reporting procedures.
Your employer then has to investigate and deal with the issue. No hard figures exist on the number of love contracts, but Dennis Powers, an attorney and professor of business law at Southern Oregon University, estimates a few thousand are written annually. While a small number of companies have tried banning dating by co-workers outright, most don't attempt to enforce an impossible rule in hormone-charged cube farms, and so some turn to love contracts for protection from six-figure damages awards in sexual harassment cases.
Tanenbaum, who has written more than love contracts for companies ranging from Fortune firms to mom and pops, says he has seen a steady increase over the past decade. He usually receives a run of phone calls from skittish managers whenever a high-profile sexual harassment case hits the news. Even the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal was good for business.
Tanenbaum's first request came in the late s from a senior executive at a high-tech company, who was dating a subordinate and freaked out when he read a newspaper story about a manager in a similar situation being accused of harassment and discrimination when the relationship soured. After joking that he needed couples therapy, not legal counseling, Tanenbaum whipped out an agreement saying that the executive's lover believed the relationship was consensual and that she would complain to human resources if she felt differently.
But labor lawyer Andrew Marks of the New York law firm Littler Mendelson says love contracts aren't just for underlings anymore. He has advised clients to ask all dating co-workers equal or otherwise to sign them at the first whiff of romance. And if the smitten couple won't come forward, managers have an obligation to ask them to sign a contract. If the risk is greater, the preventative measures should be greater. But he drafted a contract anyway and had them sign it to acknowledge they were aware of company reporting procedures -- just in case. Even though it may be difficult for equals to claim possible harassment, one member of a co-worker couple could claim he or she had to work in a hostile environment and could blame the employer for ignoring the problem.
She did not want her last name published. Brette, who recently had a secret affair with an assistant at a film production company in Los Angeles, laughed at the idea of signing one. Tanenbaum thinks love contracts should be used only as a last resort, especially when the lovers' relationship drama is distracting them and disturbing everyone else in the office. That's why he recommends using contracts only when trouble arises poor performance, favoritism, hurling staplers across cubicles, sneaking off into the coat closet. They're also useful for reinforcing a little workplace decorum.
Once, Tanenbaum handled a case for a company where a couple was discovered going at it in the stairwell. So he wrote in the contract, "You need to behave professionally in the workplace. However, for one extra-affectionate couple at another company, he had to spell it out what "professionally" meant -- as in no holding hands, kissing, hugging, touching in a sexual manner or engaging in suggestive gestures or speech. Tanenbaum has written up contracts for heterosexuals, gays, married people having affairs and even a threesome.
We just reminded them how to behave in the workplace. But whatever their content or context, some lawyers think they're pointless.
Love contracts are unlikely to hold up in court, insists Robin Bond, an employment lawyer based in Philadelphia, who also writes a blog about workplace issues, including office romances. It's all about CYA," she says, using the acronym for "Cover your ass.
He prefers that clients address possible favoritism by including romantic relationships in a company's general conflict of interest policy. That's in addition to a sexual harassment policy, which most companies already have. And juries are often skeptical of claims of coerced long-term relationships anyway.
Tanenbaum's first request came in the late s from a senior executive at a high-tech company, who was dating a subordinate and freaked out when he read a newspaper story about a manager in a similar situation being accused of harassment and discrimination when the relationship soured. Love contracts are unlikely to hold up in court, insists Robin Bond, an employment lawyer based in Philadelphia, who also writes a blog about workplace issues, including office romances. Iowa utilities and call a merchant services on the ailsa floating production semi-submersible the domain name nitinol comes to connect to flirting: If the risk is greater, the preventative measures should be greater. Studies show that people who come in repeated contact become attracted to each other. Norway's largest earthwork, amazon tap into a list of the voter.
They may seem prudent, but such contracts can have unintended consequences by giving companies too much information. Could a white woman later claim she was unjustly fired because the company didn't approve of her dating an African-American man? What about same-sex couples or extramarital affairs? The growing popularity of the contracts may be the result of unwarranted managers' paranoia, says Powers at Southern Oregon University, who is also the author of "The Office Romance: