The European maritime union Nautilus is seeking compensation for a woman captain member who was denied her maternity rights.
The case took place on board a United Kingdom-flagged superyacht, which was arrested in France after the employer refused to pay the captain her full maternity entitlement.
Organised annually by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the worldwide event focused on gender equality, one of the 17 goals that underpin the United Nations sustainable development agenda targets to be reached by 2030.
The IMO has been focusing on this theme throughout 2019, with the need to empower women and promote diversity in the maritime community, to ensure they have equal opportunities of employment and provided the same career progression free of discrimination.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has launched a video to promote the maritime industry as a career for women. Coinciding with this year’s Day of the Seafarer theme of gender equality, and the World Maritime Day theme of empowering women in the maritime community, the video, Turning the Tide, focuses on a “new generation of strong and talented women” coming into non-traditional jobs at sea, such as radio, communications and intelligence, and asserts that the maritime industries are for everyone: “It's not about your gender, it's about what you can do”.
The first ever international standard on violence and harassment in the world of work has been adopted at the centenary International Labour Conference (ILC) of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
All sides of the shipping industry came together at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the promotion of seafaring jobs to women and young people. The meeting, at the headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO), was attended by representatives from shipowners, maritime trade unions and governments, with all three spokespeople being women – representing the Chamber of Shipping of America, the ITF seafarers’ section and the US Coast Guard.
