Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920 (No. 8) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1991)

Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention. Referring to its earlier comments, the Committee notes with interest the information communicated by the Government to the effect that captains are also entitled to the unemployment indemnity provided for in the legislation in case of shipwreck.

Article 1, paragraph 2. In its earlier comments the Committee noted that section 122 of the Labour Code, which provides for payment of an unemployment indemnity in case of shipwreck, contained no definition of the term "vessel". In this regard, the Government indicates in its report that it has not maintained any register listing the cases where, following a shipwreck, unemployment indemnity has been denied to seamen on vessels on the ground that section 122 of the Labour Code was deemed inapplicable.

The Committee takes note of this information. It hopes that at the next revision of the Labour Code, the Government will be able to re-examine the question and include in the section of the Labour Code dealing with "work at sea and on navigable waterways", a precise definition of the term "vessel" so as to ensure conformity of the provisions with the Convention.