WHAT IS MARITIME LABOUR CONVENTION 2006 ? ...

MARITIME LABOUR CONVENTION ALSO KNOWN AS "A SEAFARERS BILL OF RIGHTS

The 94th (maritime) session of the international labour conference(ILC) Geneva feb. 2006 adopted the maritime labour convention 2006 (MLC2006)
It is an important new international agreement that consolidates almost all of the existing ILO maritime instrument in a single modern globally applicable legal instrument. The mlc 2006 establishes all the minimum aspects of working condition of employment, hours of work & rest, food and catering, health protection, medical care, welfare & social security protection, medical care, welfare & social security protection.  It combines rights and principal with specific standards and detailed guidences as how to implement these standards at the national level. The ships who carries a Maritime Labour Certificates, confirms that it complies with the MLC.  All seafarers whatever their nationality, serving on a ship to which the convention applies, whatever the flag it flies will have a decent working and living conditions and an ability to have concerns addressed where conditions do not meet the requirement of the convention.  The MLC is designed to sit alongside other regulation, such as the IMO standards  on ship safety, security and quality ship management (such as Solas / STCW & Marpol) where those instruments deals more  with vessels and operations, where MLC deals with your rights as a seafarer

In brief you have a right to a safe and secure workplace, where safety standards are complied with, where you have fair terms of employment, decent living and working conditions, including social protection such as access to medical care, health protection and welfare.

THE GOVT. OF INDIA HAVE RATIFIED THE MARITIME LABOUR CONVENTION 2006 ON  9/10/15 AND SAME AS COME INTO FORCE FOR INDIA WITH EFFECT FROM 09/10/16 IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE VIII (4) OF THE MLC2006