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Trade unions and employers associations in the maritime industry have taken advantage of this month’s meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) to call on States to recognise seafarers as \u2018key workers\u2019. This would ensure that their travel is facilitated, thereby making crew changes, repatriations and medical assistance possible. They have also called upon States to include seafarers within the priority groups for vaccination in view of their key function in keeping global trade moving.<\/p>\n

Governments, shipowners and seafarers groups are meeting this week in the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) to exchange information on the implementation of the MLC \u2013 also known as Seafarers\u2019 Bill of Rights \u2013 in the face of the challenges posed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, ECSA and ETF \u2013 the European Social Partners for the Maritime Transport sector – have issued a Joint Statement on the recognition of seafarers as \u2018key workers<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

In particular, in view of the absence of a universal definition of the \u2018key worker\u2019 term, the European Social Partners believe that it is more beneficial to focus attention on the specific rights and entitlements that seafarers should enjoy everywhere. The proposed non-exhaustive list of rights aims at assisting Member States in ensuring the health and wellbeing of maritime professionals as they perform their key function.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trade unions and employers associations in the maritime industry have taken advantage of this month’s meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) to call on States to recognise seafarers as \u2018key workers\u2019. This would ensure that their travel is facilitated, thereby making crew changes, repatriations and medical assistance possible. 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