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.
