COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS AS A SOURCE OF RIGHTS FOR REGULATING THE SEAFARERS’ LABOUR STATUS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Authors

  • Ivo Rozić University of Mostar, Faculty of Law
  • Tony Vuković University of Mostar, Faculty of Law
  • Nenad Božiković External Associate, Banja Luka College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.42.3.6

Keywords:

seafarers’ labour status; Maritime Labor Convention (MLC); collective bargaining; the National Collective Agreement for Croatian Seafarers on Passenger Ships and Ferries; the National Collective Agreement for Croatian Seafarers on Ships in the International Shipping Trade.

Abstract

The seafarers’ employment agreement is one of the most specific ones. Seafarers are a special category of workers, because their place of work is also their place of living. Working conditions differ in many ways from the working and living conditions of workers in other economic activities performed on land. Therefore, the legal regulation of the seafarers’ employment status is particularly important. The greatest success in these terms was made with the adoption of the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC), 2006, which was ratified by the Republic of Croatia in February 2010. In the Republic of Croatia there is no legal act in full regulating working, social and living conditions since such provisions are contained in several regulations. Collective agreements are particularly important acts. Two such collective agreements are in force in the Republic of Croatia - the National Collective Agreement for Croatian Seafarers on Passenger Ships and Ferries concluded in 1998 and the National Collective Agreement for Croatian Seafarers on Ships in the International Shipping Trade (2021-2022), which has been in force since 2021. In this paper, the authors give an overview of the Seafarers’ Labour Convention, characteristics of the concept and process of collective bargaining. They in particular analyze the applicable collective agreement with focus on the National Collective Agreement for Croatian Seafarers in the International Shipping Trade (2021-2022). 

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2022-02-16 — Updated on 2023-12-15

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Rozić, I., Vuković, T., & Božiković, N. . (2023). COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS AS A SOURCE OF RIGHTS FOR REGULATING THE SEAFARERS’ LABOUR STATUS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA. Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka, 42(3), 695–717. https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.42.3.6 (Original work published February 16, 2022)

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Vol. 42 No. 3 (2021): Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka

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