Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Seafarers' Pensions Convention, 1946 (No. 71) - Lebanon (Ratification: 1993)

Articles 2 to 4 of the Convention. Pension scheme for seafarers. The Committee has been drawing the Government’s attention to the need to adopt legislation implementing the requirements of the Convention. More concretely, the Committee has requested the Government to take the necessary measures in order to introduce into either the Merchant Shipping Code or the Social Security Act provisions establishing a pension scheme for seafarers on retirement from sea service. The Government’s earlier indications were that it was in the process of preparing draft texts regulating the seafarers’ pension scheme, in consultation with the Association of Lebanese Shipowners and the Federation of Maritime Transport Unions. However, in its last report, received in November 2010, the Government states that nothing has been done with regard to the implementation of the Convention or the adoption of executive decrees and measures concerning Lebanese workers employed on board Lebanese-registered vessels. Noting therefore that the Convention in its entirety is still not applied in practice, and that no progress has been made for more than 15 years, the Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.

[The Government is requested to reply in detail to the present comments in 2012.]