Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Seamen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1926 (No. 22) - Iraq (Ratification: 1966)

Article 5 of the Convention. Record of employment. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the clarification provided by the Tripartite Consultation Committee that measures ensuring compliance with this Article of the Convention do not fall under the scope of the Ministry of Labour but rather within the remit of the Ministry of Transport, which has already been approached.

The Committee hopes that the Government will soon be in a position to: (i) communicate a copy of the document containing a record of the seafarer’s employment on board the vessel; and (ii) describe its format, the particulars recorded in it and the manner in which such particulars are entered, as determined by national law.

Furthermore, the Committee invites the Government to consider the possibility of ratifying the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, which is the up to date international instrument regarding, inter alia, seafarers’ employment agreements, and whose ratification would result in the automatic denunciation of the present Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information in its next report on any consultations which have been held on this matter.