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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