The FPC SG satisfied on 10 December 2020 as well as talked about the IMEC Circular (20 )123 “ILO minimum basic wage for an AB and IBF basic wages – Difference explained”, which was released on 1 December 2020.

The FPC SG is let down as well as deeply worried that IMEC unilaterally made a decision to launch the round without previous assessment or interaction with the ITF as their social companions.

With the round, the IMEC is properly enforcing upon its participant firms a brand-new as well as independent analysis of the ILO Minimum Wage for Able Seafarers despite various other events of the well-known as well as reliable procedure, i.e. ITF, International Chamber of Shipping as well as International Labour Organization.

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The FPC SG sights this independent activity as prompting as well as damaging to the ITF-IMEC partnership as well as, specifically, the cumulative initiatives that has actually been developed as well as confirmed effective to all events over the last 17 years.

The ITF locates the round from IMEC particularly discouraging since throughout the Covid -19 pandemic, the ITF has actually been receptive to ask for aid from IMEC as well as their private participant firms. The ITF has actually been dedicated to functioning collaboratively with IMEC as well as the various other Joint Negotiating Group (JNG) participants to discovering joint remedies to the obstacles Covid -19 has actually presented for seafarers as well as for companies, consisting of giving ins as well as aid– where as well as when essential.

The FPC SG differs with the materials of the round considering that the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) system relocated far from the ITF Total Crew Cost (TCC) principle of a “benchmark” as well as a differential wage range to a “model ship” system. The design ship approach permits versatility in neighborhood settlements of the circulation of centrally discussed wage rises.

It is not likely that IMEC would certainly have released the round if the IBF wage settlements were kept in very early 2020 as initially arranged. However, the ITF accepted the demand from JNG that the IBF wage settlements be delayed up until April 2021, which motivated a circumstance worrying the fundamental wage for an able seafarer in a few of the IBF arrangements. This circumstance is likewise the effect of versatility to the circulation of rises to which the IBF approach enables.

Irrespective of the factors, the FPC SG highly challenge the independent analysis from IMEC, which might cause seafarers in reduced placements being burglarized of any kind of wage rise for several years to find. This is particularly frustrating considering that the exact same seafarers have actually carefully maintained the worldwide supply chain relocating, also when they have actually needed to expand their agreements method past their initial excursion of obligation.

The FPC SG anticipates IMEC to honour the system that has actually been concurred as well as in position currently for 17 years, which any kind of modifications or modifications in analysis to the IBF approach be elevated according to as well as within the concurred IBF procedure.

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