Tag: wages

Paris & Tokyo MoU on Port State Control will launch a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CiC) from 1st September 2024 to 30th November 2024 on Crew Wages and Seafarer Employment Agreement (SEA).

Colin Lavelle, Helene Peter- Davies and Reema Shour from Hill Dickinson, set out some of the background to the Act and the nine-point plan, summarise the key provisions of the Act and highlight some considerations for ship operators and harbour authorities.

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has reported that union ship inspectors recovered over $37 million in unpaid wages owed to seafarers last year.

The International Bargaining Forum (IBF) has agreed on a 6% wage increase for seafarers covered by the 2024-2027 IBF Framework Agreement.

Up to a thousand ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), seafarers’ unions and port authorities.

Academics at Cardiff Business School analysed UK-wide employee data to assess the impact of performance-related pay and concluded that performance-related pay is an important but overlooked factor behind the the gender pay gap.

Four seafarers, with assistance from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), have seized a cargo ship off the port of Dakar in Senegal after months without pay and mounting danger to their lives.

ITF reported a case of wage theft and human rights abuse aboard a coal ship berthed in Newcastle port, with crew members denied their legal right to shore-leave. As a consequence AMSA has detained the ship in Newcastle until these breaches are rectified.

A new report commissioned by the Australian Shipping Inspectorate of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) considers the dimensions, consequences, and potential solutions to the problem of pervasive wage theft facing seafarers working in the Australian coastal trade.

During the latest bipartite round of negotiations between shipowners and seafarers’ unions, the two parties agreed on a new global minimum wage.