Seafarer Contract Check: MLC

The worst place to read a seafarer employment agreement is the manning agency desk, ten minutes before you leave for the airport, pen already in hand. This app exists for the moment before that. Scan or upload your sign-on contract as a PDF, as page photos, or as pasted text, and pick the flag the ship flies (or run the plain MLC 2006 check for any other flag). The check reads it clause by clause against the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC 2006) and ITF standards, then returns a color-coded report. Green where the wording protects you. Yellow where it is vague. Red where a core protection is missing or signed away. WHAT THE CHECK READS * Basic wage, compared against the ILO minimum for an able seafarer: USD 690 per month from January 1, 2026 * Hours of rest: at least 10 hours in any 24-hour period and 77 hours in any 7-day period under MLC Standard A2.3 * Repatriation: the flight…