Hello, I don't know if anyone can help me, but basically it's my first season working in Norway on tourist boats that go out daily for 3hours trips and I'm trying to find out if there is any office or number similar to the board of labour or some unions so I could ask some informations on my contracts and see if I can press charges.
Basically all season since end of May till now is been quite a mess. But since mid July we fixed the problems on board and work has been very smooth.
The company is 50-50 between R. (the captain) and K. (handles paperwork). K has been always delaying payments and making up all kind of excuses while the captain have been really nice and helping us crew a lot.
Last month we had the first issue as we get paid per “trip” which by contract is considered 4h total (3h+1h set up and cleaning). But usually this takes up at least 4.5h and sometimes since we've been taking care of all the shopping and so we accumulated some extra. So the first time we sent in the hours K. said by contract we only get paid by trip and we should not get any extra money. After we told this to the captain he took care of paying us and called K to fix this or the boat would not go out, so then he set up something for us to send in extra hours.
Fast forward a month now we sent in the hours for the Month of August and he replied asking us crew to please let him know how many days we stayed at THE CAPTAIN'S PRIVATE BOAT. Because accommodation was not in the contract but the captain provided us crew to stay over at his private boat. So I think K is trying to use this to make us pay for accommodation and not pay us our salary.
I called the captain about this to ask why the company wants to know how many days we slept there and he said he knows nothing about this.
So I just replied saying that before giving us personal informations I would like to know why he needs to know and why is this relevant to my salary request.
But since the season is almost over and I still have quite a bit of money to get and I would like to talk to someone that can tell me what kind of leverage I have because I have also been working pretty much every day since the 15july to the 31 august and I think it's illegal.
Honestly the pay is good and the work was fun and relaxed and the captain has been super nice and helpful but every time I have to deal with the office I want to set them up on fire
Sorry if this was a bit long thanks for your attention!