Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Fishermen's Articles of Agreement Convention, 1959 (No. 114) - Slovenia (Ratification: 1992)

Article 3(6) of the Convention. Registration of the articles of agreement. Further to its previous comment, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the regulations envisaged under section 218(2) of the Employment Relationships Act (Official Gazette No. 42/2002), as amended, concerning the contents, method and procedure for the registration of the seafarers’ employment contracts have not yet been adopted. The Government further states that extensive amendments to the legislation concerning the employment of seafarers and fishers are currently under preparation. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any progress made in the revision of legislation on seafarers’ employment.

Article 5. Record of employment. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the requirement for an employee to possess an employment booklet was abolished as of 1 January 2009 by virtue of the Act Amending the Employment Relationships Act (Official Gazette No. 103/07). The Government further states that this Article of the Convention is now given effect through section 153 of the Maritime Code which requires every crew member to carry a seafarer’s book and defines the seafarer’s book as a personal document that attests to the crew member’s professional education, health status, position on board the ship and period of employment. The Committee requests the Government to transmit a specimen copy of the seafarer’s book currently delivered to fishers and containing a record of their employment. The Committee recalls that the requirement for maintaining a record of employment for every fisher is now reflected in similar terms in Article 17 of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), while the provision for a record of service to be made available to the fisher concerned, or to be entered in the fisher’s service book, at the end of each contract is incorporated in Paragraph 12 of the Work in Fishing Recommendation, 2007 (No. 199).