'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company' [191r] (389/570)
The record is made up of 1 file (281 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1936-4 Oct 1939. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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FORM OF AGREEMENT
MEMORANDUM OF AGRE
CO MP ANT $ LIMITED , r
follows: -
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In connection
abo vement i oned
of tbo General
the Employee
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to do so shall
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pfiRM OF AGHBEMEKT IN RESPECT OP CLERKS AND OTHER SPECIAL CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES.
HEMORANDUM OP AGHEEI^ENT made on the day of 19 between KUWAIT OIL
COMPANT, LIMITED, i*6sident of Kuwait hereinafter called the “COMPAHY* of the one part and
h ereinafter called the ,I E^PLO'YEE ,l of the other part,whereby it is agreed as
followa: -
1 # The Company hereby engages the Employee and the Employee hereby agrees to serve the Company as a
in connection with the operations of the Company in Kuwait for a period of TOO years from the date *
abovementioned and during such time of employment the Employee shall be under and shall obey the orders
of the General Superintendent and other superior employees of the Comnany. The Company shall provide
the Employee with a free passage from the place of recruitment to Kuwait and shall supply him during
the journey with fodd or an allowance of Rs*3 a day in lieu of food,at the option of the Employee.
2. The Employee shall serve the Company in any part of Kuwait as the Company may direct and when ordered
to do so shall move from place to place either by land or by water. The Company shall provide for the
Employee when travelling on the business of the Company by land the necessary transport free of charge
and by water with a second class passage to his destination, and in either case with free food or an
allowance of Rs.3 per day in lieu of food at the option of the employee.
3. Provided that the Employee shall perform his duties diligently and to the satisfaction of the Company
and shall observe all the conditions of this agreement, he shall receive a salary during the period of
his service in Kuwait at the rate of •
Rs. a month for the first year.
Rs* a month for the second year.
Such salary to bo paid at the latest on the 15th day of the month succeeding that in v/hich it was
earned.
The salary of the Employee shall commence from the date ahovoxnentioned, which will be the date of his
engagement and except in the event of his dismissal shall cease on the date of his return to the place
of his recruitment. I
4. The Employee shall be entitled during illness or other forced idleness during his employment in Kuwait
to a minimum v/age of not less than half of the monthly pay on which he is engaged.
5. During his employment in Kuwait the Employee shall be entitled to free tentage accommodation until such
time as other living quarters become available and free medical attendance» The General Superintendent
of the Company or person delegated by him shall have the right of satisfying himself by personal
inspection, after having given reasonable notice, that the quarters of the Employee are in a sanitary
condition and free from disease.
6. The Company shall undertake to remit through its Agent in Bombay such portion not exceeding half of the
pay of the Employee as he may desire to have sent to Ms relatives or dependants in India and shall
also undertake, if requested, to exchange part of the Employee f s pay for local currency at ruling rates
V. In the event of the Employee becoming incapable to perform his duties under tMo Agreement through ill '
health brought on through causes beyond his own control his employment with the Company shall determine
at the date of the certificate mentionod in the next paragraph of this clause and in such ovent the
Company shall bo bound to repatriate the Employee at the earliest convenient date after determination
of his employment and to provide free passage to the original place of recruitment and food or food
allowance at the rate of Rs.3 per diem at the option of the Employee for the period of the journey and
shall pay him his full salary up to the date of his arrival at the place of recruitment.
The state of the health of the Employee for the purposes of this and clause 8 shall be notified by a
qualified medical practitioner whose certificate shall be final and binding on both parties.
Passage means, for Journeys by train a second class ticket, for journeys by sea or river a second
class passage.
8. In the event of the said Employee becoming incapacisatod through illness brought on by causes within
his control as to v/Mch the decision of the medical practitioner referred to in clause 7 and as therein
provided shall be final, or \7ilfully committing a breach of any of the conditions of tMs Agreement or
bel^g guilty of misconduct or insubordination it shall be lawful for the Company to dismiss the
Employee with or without notice, his salary terminating from the date of such dismissal; but the
Company shall reoatrlate the enmlovoo ftt the rnwroor nmtrTrlor? *»V7 limine 7 vrlthovit pvu* jnrl il n n
that it may have against him for dobt or damago.
9« The Agreement shall remain in forco for two years (except as horoln provided) from the date first men
tioned and is renewable by mutual consent of tha contracting parties, notwithstanding that during its
currency the Company has the right to terainato the Agreement at any time by giving the Employee one
month 1 s notice In writing or one month f s salary In lieu of notice. The Employee has tho right to
terminate the Agreement by g5.ving tho Company ono month*s notice in writing.
10. The Employee agrees to refrain from trading or any other employment of any sort or kind v/hatsoevor
during the currency of his Agreement.
Tho employee shall have no right ot remaining/tho Company*s premises or its concession area in Kuwait
1 ® after the determination of his employment. IT he does not avail himself of the passage offered to him
by the Company at the first opportunity after such determination, ho shall forfeit his claim to salary
(if any), repatriation and food or food allowance during the period of Ms journey.
Continued.
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This file contains correspondence and documentation relating to the initiation of oil operations in Kuwait by the Kuwait Oil Company. The majority of the papers relate to operational matters from workers contracts, buoying and navigation, to plans for the construction of refineries.
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- 1 file (281 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 283; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 6-278; these numbers are also written in pencil but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- 'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company'
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- 8r:19v, 25r:28v, 30r:30v, 38r:39v, 58r:68v, 71r:71v, 79r:79v, 86r:86v, 91r:91v, 96r:98v, 100r:101v, 106r:106v, 110r:124v, 132r:134v, 136r:136v, 141r:141v, 150r:150v, 155r:155v, 181r:196v, 215r:216v, 245r:245v, 256r:257v, 259r:262v, 273r:274v, 276r:276v
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