Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Seafarers' Identity Documents (Revised) Convention, 2003
Work in Fishing Convention and Recommendation, 2007
From the founding of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1919, it was decided that questions relating to seafarers should normally be considered by special maritime sessions of the International Labour Conference devoted exclusively to them, the first of which was held in 1920.
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, an important new international Labour Convention, was adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 94th (Maritime) Session. Sometimes called a “bill of rights” for seafarers, the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 sets out seafarersۥ rights to decent conditions of work and helps to establish conditions for fair competition for shipowners. It was designed as a global legal instrument that will become the “fourth pillar” of the international regulatory regime for quality shipping, complementing the key Conventions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 contains a comprehensive set of global standards, consolidating almost all the existing maritime labour Conventions and Recommendations that have been adopted since 1920 in a single new Convention with a new format and requirements that reflect modern conditions in the industry. The Convention establishes international requirements for decent work for all seafarers, including minimum terms in seafarersۥ employment agreements, minimum age, medical fitness requirements, training, wages, leave, repatriation, on board accommodation and catering, medical care, occupational safety and health, welfare and social security. An important new part of the Convention, Title 5, is devoted to compliance and enforcement requirements. These requirements were designed to achieve continuous “compliance awareness” at every stage, from the national systems of protection up to the international system, including inspection of conditions on all ships as well as flag State certification - and port State inspection - of labour conditions on ships that go on international voyages.
Table of contents
Preface
Part A. Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
Resolutions adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 94th (Maritime) Session, Geneva, February 2006
Frequently asked questions
Part B. Seafarers' identity documents
Seafarersۥ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185)
Part C. Fishing
Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)
Work in Fishing Recommendation, 2007 (No. 199)
Resolutions on Fishing adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 96th Session, 2007
Part D. The fundamental Conventions
Freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
Elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labour
Effective abolition of child labour
Elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its follow-up
Annexes
Index
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