Proposal of the EU commission in order to include the category marine in the perimeter of five directives on the labor law



The EU commission has introduced today a proposal in order to increase the rights of the marine ones through the inclusion of the category in the perimeter of five European directives in matter by right of the job. Brussels has explained that the objective is to grant to the same rights of information and consultation which the other workers enjoy in case lay-offs collectives and transfers of enterprises; moreover the marine ones would have also the right to participate to the European Business Committees.

The Commission has remembered that, even if the labor law of the European Union is applied in general terms to all the workers of all the fields, up to now some directives on the job allow with the Member States to exclude marine from the right of information and the consultation and this has determined a various treatment of the marine ones in the several States of the EU.

The introduced proposal today sight to include marine in the scope of the directives 59/1998 (Ravvicinamento of the legislations of the Member States in matter of lay-offs collectives), 23/2001 (Ravvicinamento of the legislations of the relative Member States to the maintenance of the rights of the workers in case of transfers of enterprises, plants or parts of enterprises or plants) 14/2002 (Institution of relative a general picture to the information and the consultation of the workers), 94/2008 (Protection of the subordinate workers in case of insolvency of the employer) and 38/2009 (Institution of an European business committee or a procedure forinformation and the consultation of the workers in the enterprises and the groups of enterprises of communitarian dimensions).

"The marine workers - László Andor has declared, European commissioner to the Occupation, social transactions and integration - must have the same rights of the other workers, above all when draft of a fundamental right as the right to the information and the consultation. This proposal would improve the living conditions and of job of the seafarers and therefore it would contribute to attract a greater number of young people to the marine field. Moreover he would create pairs conditions in the marine field in Europe since all the societies of the marine field and same fishing would be subject to the obligations".