Seaman is a special group in society, the industry of sea-lift is a special vocation. Compared with vocation on land, this vocation is filled with techniqueN risk and loneliness. Thereupon, contract of seaman's employment in guaranteeing seems to be more outstanding than contract of the general vocation's employment. However, the laws and regulations binding contract of seaman's employment aren't sufficient in China, and the stipulations of the General Rules of Civil Law and the Contract Code aren't adjust completely employment on sea, so that a lot of disputes arise and many legal issues should be resolved. Combined with judicial practice, this writer makes extensive exploration and research on issues in connection with concept, nature, species, the procedure of signing on, alteration, termination, primary disputes, and the resource of the treatment of disputes of seaman's employment contract, and so forth, absorbs merits of international conventions and foreign legislation, and proposes statutory suggestions.
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