IUA Circular
111/23
The UK's Seafarer's Charter: a step towards greater employment rights
with guest speaker
Mark Hamilton, Partner, Dentons UK and Middle East LLP's People, Reward and Mobility Team
This market Briefing will be:
REMOTE ONLY
12 noon for approx 1 hour (UK/London time)
Subject: This market briefing will look at the Seafarer's Charter and the standards to which signatory employers must adhere.
Contact: Deborah Finch, IUA Events Manager (020 7617 4451)
This is a free event, but names and email addresses of all attendees are required for registration.
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The UK government has joined forces with several maritime operators to launch a Seafarer’s Charter. It aims to guarantee thousands of seafarers’ fundamental rights, including fair wages, proper rest periods and training.
The Charter is a voluntary agreement, which is intended to establish high standards for seafarers’ working conditions and welfare. It comes as part of the Department for Transport’s (DFT) nine-point plan for seafarers, which it devised following the mass redundancies at P&O Ferries in March 2022. The plan’s goal is to protect seafarers and boost employment protections, ensuring they are paid and treated fairly, irrespective of nationality.
In this market briefing, our guest speaker will explain the standards set out in the Charter and the new Verified Seafarer Charter status.
Speaker:
Mark Hamilton is a partner in Dentons UK and Middle East LLP's People, Reward and Mobility team specialising in employment law. He and the team support a wide variety of businesses and organisations on the whole range of employment and immigration issues. They advise clients in the UK and, through Dentons teams around the world, internationally.
Mark regularly advises on all aspects of employment law from contracts, workers' rights, restructuring and change projects to industrial relations, outsourcing and transfers of undertakings.
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