Merchant Shipping: Minimum Wage

(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 3.32 of his Department's consultation document entitled Maritime 2050: Call for evidence, published on 27 March 2018, when he plans to make the changes required to extend entitlement to national minimum wage rates of pay for merchant seafarers working on ships in territorial waters and on one port voyages.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 23rd April 2018

The Maritime 2050: Call for evidence consultation document sought views on a long term maritime strategy. Under the ‘people’ theme the document aims to identify the most viable UK position that meets the nation’s needs on skills, training and employment in 2050.

A legal working group has been considering the current application of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to seafarers working in the UK and whether legislative changes are necessary. The Minister for Maritime has received recommendations from the group concerning the extension of the NMW and the Government is considering these recommendations.

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