Nowhere to hide – new report from ITF campaign for seafarers rights

The Nowhere to Hide Cam­paign launched by the ITF Aus­tralian Inspec­torate to expose the exploita­tion of over­seas sea­far­ers on for­eign-reg­is­tered ships and to advo­cate for leg­isla­tive and reg­u­la­to­ry change has been busy!
MUNZ has been sup­port­ing this cam­paign and will be bring­ing the cam­paign to New Zealand waters soon.
Two tar­get­ed weeks of action took place in June and Novem­ber 2023, involv­ing ship inspec­tions and wage recov­ery for sea­far­ers in NSW, Vic­to­ria, Tas­ma­nia and South Aus­tralia.
MUNZ del­e­gates attend­ed and took part in the inspec­tions and train­ing.
The cam­paign iden­ti­fied and recov­ered a total of $USD 19.9 mil­lion in stolen wages from 650 inspec­tions in 2023, half of which was due to non-com­pli­ance with the Aus­tralian seago­ing indus­try award and coastal trad­ing leg­is­la­tion.
The cam­paign made sev­er­al rec­om­men­da­tions to the Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment to close loop­holes, strength­en enforce­ment, and enhance the infor­ma­tion shar­ing and coor­di­na­tion among com­pli­ance bod­ies to pre­vent and crim­i­nalise wage theft from sea­far­ers.
The new report from the ITF is linked above.