Introduction to the Maritime Labour Convention
MLC Updates
First Meeting of the Joint ILO-IMO Tripartite Working Group to identify and address seafarers’ issues and the human element, 13 – 15 December 2022
Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI attended the first meeting of the newly created Tripartite Working group, which met between 13 to 15 December 2022 to discuss and adopt guidelines for port State and flag State authorities on how to deal with seafarer abandonment cases.
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May 2022: Executive Director Addresses the Fourth Special Tripartite Committee of the MLC (STC4) Part II
The second part of the fourth meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee meeting took place between 5 – 13 May 2022 at the ILO headquarters in Geneva, both face to face and online. Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, SRI made a statement to the meeting as follows: STC is meeting in historic times. The maritime industry faces many challenges, threating global supply chains and global security. [Read More…]
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Repatriation, Medical Care Ashore and Financial Security Lead the Proposed Amendments of the MLC in 2022
Pursuant to the goal of continuously strengthening the MLC, the ILO Special Tripartite Committee will meet between 5 – 13 May 2022 to consider additional amendments to the Convention. The Committee will discuss twelve proposed amendments to the MLC. Seafarers and shipowners’ groups jointly submitted five proposals; the seafarers’ group presented a further five requests while government representatives advanced two suggestions. The full amendment proposals[Read More…]
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SRI Continues to Drive MLC Learning with the ILO
This July, more than 50 senior legal professionals from 22 countries took the opportunity to increase their understanding of the MLC and the tough challenges faced in implementing its provisions and amendments across local jurisdictions. They came together at the second Symposium on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and Case Law, jointly organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Training Centre of[Read More…]
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SRI Shares Expertise with the Legal Community
On 14-15 September 2022, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI, joined key experts from international organisations, universities, the legal profession and the maritime industry to speak at the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and Case Law Symposium. The event, organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Training Centre of the ILO, provided lawyers, judges, legal practitioners and academics from around the world with[Read More…]
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June 2022: SRI and the government of the Philippines sign a Memorandum of Agreement
The drive to protect the rights and welfare of seafarers around the world turns on international cooperation, and on 1 June 2022 SRI and the government of the Philippines took an important step forward in securing the wellbeing of Filipino seafarers around the world when a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed by Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI, and Silvestre H. Bello III,[Read More…]
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Reflections on Day of the Seafarer, 25 June 2022: COVID-19 and Seafarers Rights
The pandemic became a turning point in the socio and economic organisation of the world. Not surprisingly, it had and continues to have a considerable impact on maritime trade and its workforce. It may seem long ago now that cases of the novel coronavirus spread like wildfire across the world from January 2020. As the speed of contamination and serious consequences to public health became[Read More…]
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Introduction to the Maritime Labour Convention
The so-called Seafarers’ Bill of Rights marks a milestone in the drive to promote quality shipping and decent working conditions. In a single comprehensive instrument, the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) addresses whole spectrums of seafarers’ work and life at sea including controversial issues such as social security and employer’ liability. Importantly, the MLC seeks to abolish substandard shipping and foster fair competition for shipowners. Not[Read More…]
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SRI Announces New Research Project Focusing on MLC
SRI is currently engaged in a project to evaluate the effectiveness of the MLC, 2006 in terms of its implementation and enforcement. The project is being expanded to evaluate how COVID-19 affected the implementation of the Convention. Three matters are particularly important. It is widely documented that core provisions of the MLC, 2006, have been denied, diminished or ignored during the pandemic. The United Nations[Read More…]
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