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Improvement of seafarers rights according to the amendments of 2016 to the Code of the Maritime Labour Convention

Maritime Labour Convention - MLC, also known as seafarers' bill of rights, was adopted in 2006 and entered in force in 2013. MLC was introduced with a goal of creating unique international document which would cover all aspects of seafares rights and deliver them, finally, sence of security in unsecure environment of maritime industry. It was amended, for the first time, in 2014 regarding financial guarantee system in the event of abandonment of seafarers. Led by the same aspiration, of insuring broader rights to all seafarers, new amendments of MLC were passed at the 105th annual meeting of International Labour Organization - ILO in June 2016. One of the MLC 2016 amendments, which will be analyzed in this paper, is related to Regulation 4.3 on occupational accidents, injuries and diseases and was intended to address more effectively the serious issue of harassment and bullying on board ships. It took into account the Guidance on eliminating shipboard harassment and bullying developed jointly by the ICS and the ITF. Unless there is significant disagreement, when amendments are circulated to governments that have ratified the MLC, 2006 these new requirements will enter into force by December 2018.

Maritime Labour Convention, 20MLC 2016 amendments, seafarers rights, harassment, bullying

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