R107 - Seafarers' Engagement (Foreign Vessels) Recommendation, 1958 (No. 107)

• Subject Matter: Gente de mar,Seafarers,Gens de mer
• Court: International Labour Organization

Preamble

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Forty-first Session on 29 April 1958, and

Expressing its serious concern at the tendency of nationals of certain maritime countries to serve in vessels of other countries without properly negotiated collective agreements ensuring them the protection and standards applicable to vessels of their own countries, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning the engagement of seafarers, which is the third item on the agenda of the session, and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,

adopts this thirteenth day of May of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Seafarers' Engagement (Foreign Vessels) Recommendation, 1958:

1. 1. Each Member should do everything in its power to discourage seafarers within its territory from joining or agreeing to join vessels registered in a foreign country unless the conditions under which such seafarers are to be engaged are generally equivalent to those applicable under collective agreements and social standards accepted by bona fide organisations of shipowners and...