National Minimum Wage and Seafarers
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Notes to Editors 1. The National Minimum Wage (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020 will come into force 1stOctober 2020. It will extend NMW rates to all seafarers working on merchant ships between UK ports and from UK ports to installations on the UK Continental Shelf. 2. RMT, with support from other maritime unions and the TUC have been pressing Governments since the introduction of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to fully extend the Act to cover seafarers working from and between UK ports. A sample of the evidence gathered by the RMT from seafarer employment contracts over the last 3 years demonstrate the extent of the problem. 3. UK Ratings held 19% (9,140) of the total number...