diff --git a/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTask.java b/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTask.java
index 98aacbf..fdc3e66 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTask.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTask.java
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ public class ScyllaDbSinkTask extends SinkTask {
   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ScyllaDbSinkTask.class);
 
   private ScyllaDbSinkConnectorConfig config;
-  private Map<TopicPartition, OffsetAndMetadata> topicOffsets;
+  private Map<TopicPartition, OffsetAndMetadata> topicOffsets = new HashMap<>();
   ScyllaDbSession session;
 
   /**
-   * Starts the sink task. 
-   * If <code>scylladb.offset.storage.table.enable</code> is set to true, 
+   * Starts the sink task.
+   * If <code>scylladb.offset.storage.table.enable</code> is set to true,
    * the task will load offsets for each Kafka topic-partition from
    * ScyllaDB offset table into task context.
    */
@@ -64,20 +64,20 @@ public void start(Map<String, String> settings) {
   }
 
   /*
-   * Returns a ScyllaDB session. 
+   * Returns a ScyllaDB session.
    * Creates a session, if not already exists.
-   * In case the when session is not valid, 
+   * In case the when session is not valid,
    * it closes the existing session and creates a new one.
    */
   private ScyllaDbSession getValidSession() {
-    
+
     ScyllaDbSessionFactory sessionFactory = new ScyllaDbSessionFactory();
 
     if (session == null) {
       log.info("Creating ScyllaDb Session.");
       session = sessionFactory.newSession(this.config);
-    } 
-    
+    }
+
     if (!session.isValid()) {
       log.warn("ScyllaDb Session is invalid. Closing and creating new.");
       close();
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ private ScyllaDbSession getValidSession() {
   /**
    * <ol>
    * <li>Validates the kafka records.
-   * <li>Writes or deletes records from Kafka topic into ScyllaDB. 
+   * <li>Writes or deletes records from Kafka topic into ScyllaDB.
    * <li>Requests to commit the records when the scyllaDB operations are successful.
    * </ol>
    */
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ public void put(Collection<SinkRecord> records) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * If <code>scylladb.offset.storage.table.enable</code> is set to true, 
-   * updates offsets in ScyllaDB table. 
-   * Else, assumes all the records in previous @put call were successfully 
+   * If <code>scylladb.offset.storage.table.enable</code> is set to true,
+   * updates offsets in ScyllaDB table.
+   * Else, assumes all the records in previous @put call were successfully
    * written in to ScyllaDB and returns the same offsets.
    */
   @Override
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ private void handleErrors(SinkRecord record, Exception ex) {
   public void stop() {
     close();
   }
-  
+
   // Visible for testing
   void close() {
     if (null != this.session) {
@@ -230,4 +230,4 @@ void close() {
   public String version() {
     return VersionUtil.getVersion();
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTaskHelper.java b/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTaskHelper.java
index 5eaf3a0..fbaa640 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTaskHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/connect/scylladb/ScyllaDbSinkTaskHelper.java
@@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ public BoundStatement getBoundStatementForRecord(SinkRecord record) {
     } else {
       boundStatement.setConsistencyLevel(this.scyllaDbSinkConnectorConfig.consistencyLevel);
       // Timestamps in Kafka (record.timestamp()) are in millisecond precision,
-      // while Scylla expects a microsecond precision: 1 ms = 1000 us.
-      boundStatement.setDefaultTimestamp(record.timestamp() * 1000);
+      // while Scylla expects a microsecond precision: 1 ms = 1000 µs.
+      // + to avoid clashes of subsequent writes having the same record timestamp, the offset mod 1000 is added as [µs].
+      boundStatement.setDefaultTimestamp(record.timestamp() * 1000 + record.kafkaOffset() % 1000);
     }
     return boundStatement;
   }