The U.N. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards as applied to cruise ship crew employment contracts.
An injured cruise ship crew member faces a question most injured workers never do: not just how much the claim is worth, but whether it will be decided by a U.S. jury or by a private arbitrator in another country applying another nation’s law. That fork in the road, set by a clause buried in…
When a cruise ship crew member is injured at sea, the first shock is the accident. The second is discovering that the employment contract they signed, often without a lawyer and on a take-it-or-leave-the-ship basis, quietly stripped away the American jury trial they assumed they had and replaced it with private arbitration in a foreign…
If you crew a cruise ship and get hurt on the job, you may be told your contract sends you to arbitration in another country under another nation’s law. That is often true. It does not mean you have no rights. In short: Injured cruise ship crew keep real maritime rights, including maintenance and cure…
Cruise ship crew members come from across the world, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond, and work long contracts on foreign-flag vessels that sail in and out of U.S. ports. If you have been hurt working as cruise ship crew, your employment contract probably contains an arbitration clause that points…
