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Dockers and Seafarers unions in Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar inspected a total of 34 merchant vessels flying flags of convenience (FOC), as ITF Unions concluded the South East Asian Week of Action from 13-17 January.

Specialist marine insurance intermediary Seacurus said that reported doubts about the insurance industry's ability to insure the liability for unpaid wages of abandoned seafarers

Crew not being paid or treated properly - detention lifted by Transport Canada ITF has issued a press release regarding a new MLC detention in Canada. which is is the third detention in Canada since the Convention came into force on August 20, 2013. The Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier Kouyou was detained last week in the port of Quebec, Canada, after maritime labour officials determined that crew were owed more than USD 51,000 in backpay.Problems aboard the ship were discovered by ITF Inspector Gerard Bradbury, who explained that the crew, were not being paid or treated properly, and in particular had been shorted on the home-allotment portion of their pay that provides for families left at home while seafarers are abroad at work.The most alarming situation aboard involved crew who had paid a total of USD6,600 in fees to obtain their jobs. Recruitment or placement fees paid to manning agents are illegal under international labour conventions. In some cases, crew were also receiving less than half the wage owed them under their labour agreement, he stated. Wage calculations are ongoing, but are expected to top USD51,000 US. Four crew have asked to be repatriated after receiving wages owed them.Transport Canada was ...

Belize uses MLC to win back pay for crew, the back pay amounted to around USD 90,000 for 20 seafarers on board 12 Kent vessels

Philippines on Implication of payments of sick wages in illness claims

Seafarers indemnified against employers

Shipping sector wages lure youth

Faststream Employment Review reveals pay rises across maritime sector

Claims that crews have not been paid A Russian owner is facing industrial action following claims that crews have not been paid.Union officials and commercial creditors are preparing to take action against vessels controlled by Monaco-based Russian commodities exporter and bulker owner Aleksei Fedoricsev.The action is directly related to the mini-bulker fleet of Fedoricsev's former Manati Navigation and follows a change of control of that fleet that critics say was a sham.Muzzafer Civelek,who is Istanbul's ITF representator,confirms that actions are being planned if former Manati seafarers are not paid this week.Civelek mentions that this could take the form of boycotts and blacklisting or ship arrests in the jurisdiction where the former Manati ships trade.Nearly 44 seafarers are said to be owed over $140,000 in unpaid wages after being discharged in connection with a series of transactions that culminated in April.In one case, a chief engineer, Oleg Hairulin, who demanded some $52,515 in back pay on 30 March in connection with one ship handover, was allegedly dismissed on the spot and ordered confined on board his former ship, the 5,100-dwt Aleksandr Lebed (built 1985).Instead of being repatriated in the ordinary manner, Hairulin was allegedly treated to an involuntary passage from Istanbul ...

They are now given a higher tax deduction The new act strengthens the competitiveness of the shipping companies as well as the Danish seafarers employment possibilities on the global maritime labour market.Minister for Economic and Business Affairs Brian Mikkelsen says:I am extremely satisfied that a wide majority of the parties in the Danish Parliament are behind this growth package for the Blue Denmark. We are extending the Danish position of strength globally by improving the maritime framework conditions for both Danish shipping companies and Danish seafarers, and this means that we can compete with other major maritime nations also in the future.It is also very important to me that the shipping companies continue to choose the Danish flag for the ships. This presupposes that we retain a critical mass of maritime competences and that we improve the Danish seafarers possibilities of employment on the global maritime labour market.The competitiveness of the shipping companies is strengthened because the amendments will provide them with updated framework conditions that better match those of other major, competing maritime nations, such as Singapore.The fact that now the shipping companies will to a higher extent have a possibility of using masters (captains) from other non-EU countries ...