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State creates agency to push for better salaries and conditions of work for seafarers

Fishermen on their boat fishing in Indian Ocean [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Kenyan seafarers have a reason to smile after the government established an agency to negotiate better pay and improved work conditions for them.

The Maritime Wages Council (MWC) was gazetted on September 17 by Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui, and will work with owners of shipping companies that have employed Kenyans to better their terms and conditions of work.

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