Kenya has become the 20th ILO Member State and the seventh African fishing country to ratify the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188).
The Convention, which entered into force on 16 November 2017, provides the international legal framework for decent work in the fishing sector. It aims to ensure that the 38 million fishers worldwide who work on commercial fishing vessels enjoy decent working and living conditions on board.
It sets out minimum requirements regarding, among other things, conditions of service (such as rest periods, written work agreements, regular salary, repatriation), accommodation and food, occupational safety and health, medical care at sea and ashore and social security. protection, (which should be at the same level as workers ashore).
Ratification documents were received at the ILO on February 4, 2022 and the Convention will enter into force in Kenya on February 4, 2023.
Convention No. 188 has also been ratified by Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, Denmark. , Estonia, France, Lithuania, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand and United Kingdom.
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