C2.1.g. Do self-employed seafarers have to conclude a seafarers’ employment agreement (SEA)?

Where seafarers are not employees (for example, if the seafarer is self-employed), they are not required to have a SEA, but – in accordance with Standard A2.1, paragraph 1(a) – there would need to be evidence of contractual or similar arrangements “providing them with decent working and living conditions on board” as required by the MLC, 2006.

Seafarers’ employment agreements