Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Genoa by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office on the 15 June 1920, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the supervision of articles of agreement; provision of facilities for finding employment for seamen; application to seamen of the Convention and Recommendations adopted at Washington in November last in regard to unemployment and unemployment insurance, which is the second item in the agenda for the Genoa meeting of the Conference, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance (Seamen) Recommendation, 1920, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:
The General Conference, with a view to securing the application to seamen of Part III of the Recommendation concerning unemployment adopted at Washington on 28 November 1919, recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation should establish for seamen an effective system of insurance against unemployment arising out of shipwreck or any other cause, either by means of Government insurance or by means of Government subventions to industrial organisations whose rules provide for the payment of benefits to their unemployed members.
