No. 8 - Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck), 1920

Provisions

• If a vessel founders or is lost, the owner or employer must pay to all persons employed on board, for each day of ensuing unemployment, up to a total of two months, an indemnity equivalent to their daily wage.
• A vessel includes ships and boats, of any nature whatsoever, engaged in maritime navigation, whether publicly or privately owned. However, a vessel excludes ships of war.

Administered by

Maritime New Zealand

• Maritime Transport Act 1994

How New Zealand implements it

• Section 22, of the Maritime Transport Act provides that every employer of seafarers on a New Zealand ship shall, in the event of the loss or foundering of the ship, pay to every seafarer wages at the normal rate until:
  • the seafarer is otherwise employed; or
  • the expiry of two months from the date of loss or foundering, whichever first occurs.

This Convention is not applicable to Tokelau.

Ratified - 11 January 1980

Total ratifications - 34

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