Research On Impacts Of Maritime Labour Convention,2006 And Chinese Seafarers’ Rights Protection

The International Labour Organization introduced a comprehensive convention named "The Maritime Labour Convention 2006". It provided seafarers with fair terms of employment and guaranteed them safe, secure and decent living and working conditions on board ship. The convention entered into force on 20 August 2013, one year after registering 30 ratifications of countries representing over 33 percent of the world gross tonnage of ships. The entry into force of the Convention brought pressure to China. At present, the development of Chinese seafarers’ raghts protection still had a big gap to meet the requirement of Maritime Labour Convention 2006. The port State mandatory supervision system put China in a very disadvantageous position. Therefore, the study on "The Maritime Labour Convention 2006" is very necessary. The article used the literature analysis, Investigation analysis, comparative analysis and other methods to research the impacts of Maritime Labour Convention,2006 and Chinese seafarers’ s rights protection. First of all, on the basis of analysis Chinese laws and the Maritime Labour Convention,2006, the author tried hard to summarize some main definitions, such as seafarers, seafarers’ rights protection. Secondly, the article compared the Chinese Laws to the MLC2006, in order to find deficiencies in legislation. Thirdly, this article surveied many seafarers to find out current situation of Cinese seafarers’ rights protection. Finally, on the basis of reference on seafarers’ rights protection legislation and practice, the authors put forward constructive suggestions for China to protect the rights of the whole Chinese seafarers. The suggestions put forward in this paper were based on the analysis of a large amount of data. It would be more comprehensive and targeted, and would promote the protection of the overall interests of seafarers in china.