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June 2011
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Singapore, First Asian country to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
15 June 2011
Singapore has ratified the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the full support of tripartite partners – the seafarer unions and the National Trades Union Congress, as well as the maritime industry and the Singapore National Employers Federation.
June 2010
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Maritime Labour Convention
Canada joins other key maritime States to help bring seafarers' decent work Convention into force
17 June 2010
The Government of Canada deposited its instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 with the International Labour Office on 15 June. Canada is the first North American country to ratify this key maritime labour Convention, sometimes called the “super convention”, adopted by the 94th International Labour Conference (Maritime) in Geneva in February 2006.