I have quite a bit of leave saved, enough to take up to 6 months off. What is the maximum leave policy at MSC? How much leave can I take in a year? Is there a minimum amount of time I need to be on a ship each year to continue to be employed with MSC? And does leave time count as time towards my retirement?
How does getting approved for schools and shore training with MSC work? Do I need to have my supervisor recommend me for schools in my evals before I can go, or can I contact Training on shore directly and request the schools myself for when I go on leave? Or does it depend on the school/training class?
How does ending your first year of probation work? Is there an official eval process by shore to approve you as a permanent hire? Do you have to have an eval above a certain number to be accepted or a certain number of evals on your record?
I know you get evals when you leave a ship or your DH leaves a ship, but do MSC employees on ships get periodic evals apart from those times?
If I get ship funded leave approved, does that count as a departure and would I have to get an eval? I just want it to be a simple departure and return with minimal paperwork to slow it down.
Does PMH AND an hour of overtime pyramid for meals outside my normal working hours, or just a PMH hour?
Example: Let's say I am a day worker with 8 am to 5 pm working hours every day.
If I have to work from 0530 to 1000 on a weekday (non holiday), do I get both PMH AND an hour of overtime for working through the breakfast hour of 0700 to 0800, or just one hour of PMH for the 0700 to 0800 meal hour?
I am thinking I get both PMH and an hour of overtime since that breakfast meal is before my working hours.
Thank you!