EU: social partners open negotiations on transposition of international maritime labor code into Community law

Social partners of the maritime transport sector – the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) and the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA)- have accepted the Commission's invitation to negotiate a sectoral agreement which would integrate into Community law the maritime labor code adopted by the International Labor Organization (ILO). The ETF and the ECSA have nine months to reach an agreement and decide : take just the ILO standards or put more? (Ref. 06975)
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Social partners agree to convert agreement into Community directive. European social partners of the maritime sector -the ETF for workers and the ESCA for employers- have agreed to open negotiations on the transposition of the ILO Maritime Labour Code (ILO MLC) into Community law. Their aim is to conclude a sectoral agreement that would be converted into a directive by the European Commission. This international labor code, adopted in February 2006, compiles the international labor rules applic

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