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Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920

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Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920
C8
ILO Convention
Date of adoptionJuly 9, 1920
Date in forceMarch 16, 1923
ClassificationSocial Security
SubjectSeafarers
PreviousMinimum Age (Sea) Convention, 1920
NextPlacing of Seamen Convention, 1920

Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920 is an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1920:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "supervision of articles of agreement; provision of facilities for finding employment for seamen; application to seamen of the Convention and Recommendations adopted at Washington in November last in regard to unemployment and unemployment insurance",...

Ratifications

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As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 60 states. Of the ratifying states, 45 have subsequently denounced the treaty automatically.

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