If you or your relatives have encountered any of these problems while working on a ship, contact the Union for advice on your rights and further action.
- Non-payment of wages
- Delay in signing off from the ship
- Violation of contract terms (refusal to sign off, unlawful signing off)
- Signing off for medical reasons and issuing a sick leave certificate for a seafarer
- Compensation for incapacity for work
- Compensation for injury to a seafarers
- Compensation for death of a seafarers
- Compensation in case of a seafarer's disappearance from the ship
- The Union represents the seafarer's or his family's interests in negotiations with the shipowner, insurance company, P&I club, etc.
Legal assistance and full case support by the MTWTU is provided free of charge to seafarers who are Union members.
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