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Employment contract summary
📌 TL;DR / Quick Summary <div style="background: rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px dashed rgba(255,255,255,0.2); padding: 15px; border-radius: 8px; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7); margin-bottom: 30px;"> My contract with 🏢 Halden Freight Systems, signed for a start on 2 March 2020 and amended once, at the promotion to senior in 2023. The clauses I have needed to find, in my words. A summary, not legal advice; the signed copy is in the folder on the top shelf. </div>
🛠️ Instructions / Core Material
| Clause | What it says | When it mattered |
|---|---|---|
| Role | Product manager; senior product manager from 2023 | The amendment is one page |
| Hours | Full time, with Monday and Friday from home by agreement | The agreement is an e-mail from Dov, kept |
| Salary | 78,000 euros gross in 2025; reviewed each November for January | 4.5 percent announced on 14 November |
| Bonus | Discretionary, paid in March | 1,800 net in 2025 |
| Holiday | 28 days plus public holidays; five may carry into the first quarter | I took 24 in 2025 |
| Sickness | Self-certified for three days, a note from the fourth | 13 to 15 October: no note needed |
| Notice | Three months either way, to the end of a month | Never, so far |
| Side work | Allowed if declared in writing, not competing, not on company time, and not using company or customer names | Declared in 2023 for the newsletter, again in March for the workshops |
| What I make at work | Belongs to Halden | The newsletter is written at the kitchen table before 08:00 for this reason among others |
| Unpaid leave | By arrangement. Two words | These two words are the sabbatical |
⚠️ Key Warnings / Constraints
- Three months' notice, and three months on the flat. Any large change in my life has a minimum length, and it is a quarter.
- By arrangement means a conversation with Katarina and with Esther Lindholm, and it means asking early. The contract neither offers a sabbatical nor forbids one.
- Read on 15 November, the day after the result, alongside ❓ Stay at Halden after the no. It took ten minutes and settled nothing, which was useful to know.
- My reading. If I am ever relying on a clause, somebody qualified reads the original.
🔗 Related Entities & Resources
- 🏢 Halden Freight Systems: the employer on the other side of the signature
- ❓ Stay at Halden after the no: the question I reread the notice clause for
- Side income rules summary: what the declared-side-work clause meets in practice
- Performance review record: the yearly ratings that go with the salary clause