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Maersk Narrows Seafarer Gender Gap With "Equal at Sea" Recruitment Drive
Sep 29, 2024 https://maritime-executive.com/article/maersk-narrows-seafarer-gender-ga...

Workers’ group flags ‘discriminatory provision’ vs seafarers
Dexter Cabalza - October 01, 2024 https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1988507/workers-group-flags-discriminatory...

MANILA, Philippines — While stakeholders have welcomed the enactment of the long-delayed Republic Act (RA) No. 12021, or the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, a national trade union center said it would contest a discriminatory provision of the law that unduly burdens sailors.

How to tackle harassment onboard
Pierre Aury October 1, 2024 https://splash247.com/how-to-tackle-harassment-onboard/

Pierre Aury has some suggestions to make life at sea fairer.

Whenever shipping is mentioned, outside shipping circles, it is always with the same clichés along the lines of shipping is the blood of the global economy or shipping carries over 90% of global trade volumes with the seaborne trade standing at around 11bn tons annually carried by around 55,000 vessels.

Protecting Filipino seafarers, among the best in the world
The Editorial Board October 1, 2024 https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/10/01/opinion/editorial/protecting-fili...

A WEEK ago, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, which is designed to protect the rights of the country's ships' crew and enshrines the provisions of the Maritime Labor Convention in our laws.

Seafarers worry over ‘pro-shipowner’ provision in new Magna Carta
Michelle Abad Sep 29, 2024 https://www.rappler.com/philippines/seafarers-worry-pro-shipowner-provis...

Maritime school tuition fee hike seen
Kimberly Anne Ojeda 29 Sep 2024, https://tribune.net.ph/2024/09/28/maritime-school-tuition-fee-hike-seen

‘What needs to be clarified is where the funding for training vessels will come from or who will subsidize them, as it would be difficult for a single institution to bear the cost.’

Labor unions laud PBBM signing of Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers
September 27, 2024, https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1234316

Seafarers’ magna carta IRR
Kimberly Anne Ojeda 28 Sep 2024 https://tribune.net.ph/2024/09/27/seafarers-magna-carta-irr

Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Hans Cacdac announced on Friday that they are collaborating with the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) to develop the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) for the Magna Carta for Seafarers.

Cacdac, along with Marina and the Department of Transportation (DoTR), aims to finalize the IRR by December.

DOLE: Exclude execution bond in Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers
Dennis Gorecho September 26, 2024 https://www.panaynews.net/dole-exclude-execution-bond-in-magna-carta-for...

THE MAGNA Carta for Filipino seafarers failed to consider recommendation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on the exclusion of labor dispute resolution provisions, particularly involving the execution bond.

Seafarers faring better
09/26/2024 https://visayandailystar.com/seafarers-faring-better/

The Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers was finally signed into law by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., twenty years after the bill was first filed in 2004, seeking to promote the welfare of more than half a million domestic and overseas Filipino seafarers.