The Identification and Legal Regulation of Seafarer Employment Contract

Abstract

The confusion in the identification of the nature of the seafarer's employment contract aggravates the difficulty in resolving the disputes over the seafarer's employment contract and the difficulty in protecting the seafarer's legitimate labor rights and interests. At present, most of the regulations regulating seafarer relations in China are some administrative regulations made by the Ministry of Communications and its subordinate departments, which focus on the administrative management of seafarer, while the provisions on labor protection with the nature of labor law are scattered in individual regulations, and the provisions are not complete. Through the quantitative analysis of cases and documents, this paper studies the qualitative problems of the seafarer employment contract between seafarer and seafarer service organization, between seafarer and shipowner, and considers to standardize the identification of the nature of seafarer contract from the perspective of perfecting the relevant legal provisions.