MLC Update Archives - Seafarers Rights International https://seafarersrights.org/category/mlc-update/ international centre for advancing the legal protection of seafarers Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:28:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 First Meeting of the Joint ILO-IMO Tripartite Working Group to identify and address seafarers’ issues and the human element, 13 – 15 December 2022 https://seafarersrights.org/first-meeting-of-the-joint-ilo-imo-tripartite-working-group-to-identify-and-address-seafarers-issues-and-the-human-element-13-15-december-2022/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:07:33 +0000 https://seafarersrights.org/?p=22078 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 https://seafarersrights.org/statement-from-sri-to-the-special-tripartite-committee-meeting-stc4-part-ii-may-2022/ Wed, 18 May 2022 11:34:12 +0000 https://seafarersrights.org/?p=21836 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 […]

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]]> Repatriation, Medical Care Ashore and Financial Security Lead the Proposed Amendments of the MLC in 2022 https://seafarersrights.org/repatriation-ashore-medical-care-and-financial-security-lead-the-proposed-amendments-of-the-mlc-in-2022/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:49:48 +0000 https://seafarersrights.org/?p=21775 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 […]

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