Convenio sobre el trabajo en la pesca 2007 (núm. 188)
- 1 Universidadd de Granada
ISSN: 2282-2313
Year of publication: 2019
Issue Title: Conmemoración del Centenario de la OIT, 2019
Volume: 7
Issue: 0
Pages: 1492-1514
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Internacional y Comparada de Relaciones Laborales y Derecho del Empleo
Abstract
Work on board fishing vessels has significant singularities which characterize and distinguish it from that which is carried out in any other sector. Hence, the need of a standard relating specifically and in a comprehensive manner the working conditions in an industry that currently employs more than forty million workers around the world. Convention n. 188 concerning work in the fishing sector (2007), whose adoption took longer than desirable, has the objective to ensure that fishers have decent conditions of work on board fishing vessels. This paper provides an analysis of this ILO standard-setting instrument in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses, all this in the light of the challenges that the specific working conditions in the sea fishing sector pose.