This book focuses on maritime employment from a private international
law perspective. The first chapter analyzes the background against which
international jurisdiction and conflict of laws rules are drawn up and
examines uniform law in this context, in particular the 2006 Maritime
Labour Convention and the 2007 ILO Convention No. 188 on Work in
Fishing. The second chapter addresses international jurisdiction issues
as regards individual employment contracts, while also exploring other
issues (e.g. insolvency-related and social security matters) that are
subsequently revisited in the third chapter while discussing conflict of
laws issues related to said contracts. In turn, chapter four focuses on
collective labour relations and private international law, i.e.
collective agreements, strikes and other forms of collective action and
information, and on the participation rights of employees in business
matters.