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Pay Practices In The UK Maritime Sector

EDM number 1780 in 2008-09, proposed by Gwyn Prosser on 30/06/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Pay and Shipping.

That this House is appalled that in the 21st century ships, including ferry services, which regularly trade on fixed routes between UK ports and between the UK and Europe, are allowed to pay poverty wages substantially below the minimum wage to non-UK seafarers including rates as little as £1.50 per hour; is dismayed that this super-exploitation is legal as a result of a loophole in the Race Relations Act which allows non-UK seafarers to be paid rates below agreed UK levels and also due to the exemption of seafarers from the National Minimum Wage; urges the Government to bring forward amendments to the Equality Bill to outlaw this discrimination and to reform the Race Relations Act as it applies to seafarers; and calls on the Government to bring forward immediately legislation to ensure that non-UK seafarers are protected by the provisions of the national minimum wage.

This motion has been signed by a total of 59 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gwyn Prosser30/06/2009DoverLabourProposed
John McDonnell30/06/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Jim Cousins30/06/2009Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSeconded
Katy Clark30/06/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSeconded
Geraldine Smith30/06/2009Morecambe and LunesdaleLabourSeconded
Albert Owen30/06/2009Ynys MLabourSeconded
Bob Russell30/06/2009ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/06/2009Islington NorthLabourSigned
Mark Durkan30/06/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jim Dobbin01/07/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Robert Wareing01/07/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Rudi Vis01/07/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Desmond Turner01/07/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Mike Hancock01/07/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George01/07/2009St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer01/07/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton01/07/2009GowerLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell01/07/2009Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell01/07/2009East LondonderryDUPSigned
Alan Meale01/07/2009MansfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones01/07/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle01/07/2009ChorleyLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson02/07/2009Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins02/07/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore02/07/2009HendonLabourSigned
David Drew02/07/2009StroudLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard02/07/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
David Taylor02/07/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Andrew Pelling03/07/2009Croydon CentralIndependentSigned
David Hamilton03/07/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell06/07/2009Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams06/07/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Iris Robinson07/07/2009StrangfordDUPSigned
Kelvin Hopkins07/07/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
Colin Burgon07/07/2009ElmetLabourSigned
Mark Hunter07/07/2009CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/07/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
William McCrea08/07/2009South AntrimDUPSigned
Denis Murphy08/07/2009WansbeckLabourSigned
Frank Doran08/07/2009Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington08/07/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Evans08/07/2009Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Dai Davies09/07/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
John Mason09/07/2009Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Chris McCafferty09/07/2009Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Kim Howells09/07/2009PontypriddLabourSigned
Alan Simpson14/07/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Hywel Francis14/07/2009AberavonLabourSigned
George Galloway14/07/2009Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Gavin Strang14/07/2009Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Janet Dean15/07/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Eric Illsley20/07/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Martyn Jones20/07/2009Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds20/07/2009Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Julie Morgan21/07/2009Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood21/07/2009Lanark and Hamilton EastLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell13/10/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Frank Cook13/10/2009Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Diane Abbott04/11/2009Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned

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