Shipping: Pay
(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the impact that prohibiting nationality based pay discrimination would have on seafarer (a) welfare and (b) employment conditions in the shipping industry since 17 March 2022.
This question was answered on 14th March 2023
The Department is in the process of conducting a Post Implementation Review of the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011. This will include an analysis of nationality-based pay discrimination and the potential effects of eliminating it within UK jurisdiction.