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THE DEEPDRAFT · RIGHTSHIP PREPARATION

Employment agreements and pay

RISQ 15.1Section 15 · Health and Welfare of SeafarersSource marking: V & M

Applicability: Apply to the vessel’s employment, accommodation and welfare arrangements, retaining each question’s stated conditions.

What is being checked

Agreements, monthly pay statements and deductions are properly controlled.

Ready on board

0 / 6 checked

Check the vessel’s procedures and evidence against these RISQ 3.2 points. Keep personal wages, medical records and complaint details out of public contributions.

Have signed employment agreements and original copies provided to each seafarer, with the applicable collective agreement where relevant.Have monthly wage statements detailing pay and authorised deductions/allotments; check payment is made at least monthly in full.Have contract durations available for the Master, Chief Officer, Chief Engineer, Second Engineer, other officers and crew for inspector comments.Where an ITF agreement covers the vessel, have its evidence; the source says a separate ILO pay-rate contract assessment is not required under this inspection check.Where no ITF agreement applies, have evidence for comparing pay with the applicable current ILO recommended scale; do not use the PDF’s linked 2025 rates as automatically current.Check employer/shipowner responsibility, posted duties/work-rest schedules, leave and operationally compatible shore leave, repatriation arrangements and liability insurance against the applicable SEA and framework.

Practice questions

Preparation prompts derived from this entry, not an official inspector interview script. Use anonymised examples without personal medical or complaint information.

1Does an ITF agreement remove the checks on wage statements and unauthorised deductions?

No. The source’s exception concerns the separate ILO pay-rate assessment, not the other questions.

Where a finding may arise

Explicit RISQ trigger: unauthorised deductions are recorded on monthly statements, with payments for travel to or from the ship given as an example.

Past observations for practice

Anonymised reports, manually reviewed before publication. These are reported experiences, not additional inspection requirements.

No reviewed observations have been added for this entry.

Share an observation for private review

Remove vessel, company and inspector names, report numbers, exact dates and confidential information. Do not paste a complete inspection report.

Source clarification

The PDF links 2025 wage rates, cites a 20% annual late-payment interest figure and describes repatriation after a maximum twelve months. These are not adopted here as universal current statutory entitlements or permission for a twelve-month tour; check the applicable SEA/CBA, Flag and current framework. No wage rate or interest calculator is supplied.

References and source status

RightShip Inspection Ship Questionnaire, November 2025, version 3.2. Section 15, page 218, reference 15.1.

The explanation, checklist and practice answer derive from the supplied questionnaire. Reported observations are separately contributed and manually reviewed; they are not official RISQ guidance.

Independent DeepDraft preparation guide, based on the supplied RISQ 3.2 questionnaire. Not an official RightShip product or inspection report.