C1.4.n. Is a professional or other association or service that posts employment opportunities for its members a seafarers’ recruitment and placement service under the MLC, 2006?

Article II, paragraph 1(h) of the MLC, 2006 defines a seafarer recruitment and placement service as “any person, company, institution, agency or other organization, in the public or the private sector, which is engaged in recruiting seafarers on behalf of shipowners or placing seafarers with shipowners”. If a service or association is not engaged in recruiting on behalf of shipowners or placing seafarers with shipowners then it is likely that it would not be considered a recruitment and placement service [see C1.4.b.]. However, this is a matter for national laws and regulations.

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