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Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920

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Date of adoption
  
July 9, 1920

Classification
  
Social Security

Date in force
  
March 16, 1923

Subject
  
Seafarers

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Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920 is an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1920:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "supervision of articles of agreement; provision of facilities for finding employment for seamen; application to seamen of the Convention and Recommendations adopted at Washington in November last in regard to unemployment and unemployment insurance",...

Ratifications

As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 60 states. Of the ratifying states, 17 have subsequently denounced the treaty.

References

Unemployment Indemnity (Shipwreck) Convention, 1920 Wikipedia