NEW DECREE ON YUGOSLAV MERCHANT MARINE PERSONNEL

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 666
• Publication Date: March 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED Rijeka
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PUBLISHED Jan 1951
PUBLISHED Monthly eriodical DATE DIST. 7 Ma, 1952
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Economic; Transportation - Merchant marine
I IoW Sociological - Manpower, training
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REW DECREE OH Y11O0SIAV MERCP~1N7 MARINE PERSORNEL
Vinko Stalio
The new decree on merchant marine personnel effective 1 January 1951 deals
ithrthetiroblem of training merchant marine personnel and qualifying them for
During the 3-yep. period in which the provisions of the decree on mari-
time and inland shipping personnel, now superseded by the new decree on mer-
chant marine personnel, were in force, a large number of shortcomings and gaps
appeared which bad to be remedied. Since this could not be done by partial
change or amendment, the old decree, insofar as it affects maritime personnel,
is replaced by the new decree on merchant marine personnel.
The new decree was enacted primarily for the following reasons:
1. By the former decree most maritime officials were assigned to the mari-
time navigation and ship engineering services; a smaller number were assigned
to the postal, telephone, and telegraph service, and a very small number to
other services, such as the administrative, etc. The former decree thus failed
to include all positions. For instance, it contained no provisions for positions
in the harbor exploitation service in general, while the radio service was in-
cluded in the postal, telephone, and telegraph service. Because of its parti-
cular characteristics, the radio service should have been handled by assigning
the radiotelegraph service to the civil air communications branch, or the tele-
graph service to the railroad exploitation branch.
2. Another shortcoming of the former decree which gave much trouble in
practice was the fact that there were too many duties included in individual
positions. Very often each of these duties vao quite sufficient to be a full-
time job, and several of them would have been enough for a separate service.
This was the case with organizational units which were included in the ship ser-
vice, and with the lighthouse service which was included in the maritime admini-
strative service and maritime security service.
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3- Under the former decree, applying the provisions governing positions
belonging to the ship service was very difficult, for they included positions
on board ship and ashore. The base pay for both groups was the same, and in
many positions was a fixed monthly amount. But the special system of payment
for personnel aboard ship, which included sea pay, duty and other allowances,
rations, quarters, and service clothing, placed such personnel in a much more
favorable position than personnel assigned to organizational units ashore.
Since a large number of personnel in the professional maritime service
must be obtained from the ship service branch, it is necessary to create favora-
ble conditions for transfer of personnel from ships to other maritime services.
Because of hardships of life and work at sea, seagoing personnel should be bet-
ter paid than.personnel in an organizational unit, but this does not mean that
personnel employed in identical positions in different branches should receive
different base pay. Base pay, being the pay for the regular performance of
particular duties, should be determined solely on the basis of the value of the
work performed and the degree of specialization involved In its performance. In
no case should it be determined by giving arbitrary preference to some positions;
there should be no disparity in pay between positions of the same grade, as was
the case until recently with the positions of transocean captain, ship engineer
first and second class, etc.
4. The specific opportunities arising from the needs and method of devel-
oping professional. maritim- personnel require an adequate system of schools.
When the former decree vent into effect, considerable changes were made in the
maritime educational system. In addition to existing maritime technical insti-
tutes, a Maritime College and a Seaman's School with special sections for spe-
cialties such as navigation, naval engineering, economics, and radio service
were established. These changes entailed considerable changes in the rules gov-
erning the professional development of maritime personnel, and in the rules
for qualifying for a specific position.
These are the main reasons which led to the conclusion that the provisions
of the former decree prevented the proper development and education of maritime
personnel, and did not provide an adequate basis for setting up a just system
of paying employees according to their qualifications, responsibilities, and
the luality of their work.
The new decree is based on the following basic principles:
1. This decree governs all activities connected with the maritime economy
and its administrative service. Consequently, there is no longer any need to
retain the former two branches, navigation and engineering.
2. The maritime branch is divided into separate services, each one of
which is an integral unit with many positions, but it is easy to transfer per-
sonnel from one service to another since the professional and educational quali-
fications and basic pay for corresponding positions in the different services
are uniform.
3. Requirements for professional development and training of personnel are
connected with the present system of training maritime personnel.
4. The new decree does not retain the former classifications of deck and
engineering service positions, such as seaman, mate, chief petty officer, assis-
tant engineer, and chief engineer, since these positions are subject to the de-
cree on professional training and positions of workers.
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In addition to these prim tplcs, r!~:_ rt:?w de.. cc, centalas a number of other
amendments, such as definition of tb.; pre a se duties of various positions, the
breaking up of one position into several, and the adoption of designations act-
ually used in the seaman's daily life.
A new rank, "brodovodja" ;petty officer?7 has been added, which with
certain restrictions depending on '1,c Cross registered tonnage of a vessel,
involves duties identical to thos of the former coastal shipping lieutenant,
and some of the same dutlns as those el' t:.e fer:mer :_hlef p?,tty officer. This
rank requires passing a technical ex;aminntinn, or graduation from a technical
institute for fishing
the former rank of iteuten,nt, trarisocean lines, Is replaced by the
rank of merchant marine Iteuteaant, w1:, te,s the duties of third and second deck
officer on long-distance coastal or transocean lines, or deck officer on short
coastal runs.
The only change affeLttng ih, rank of captain, coastal shipping lines,
is the provision that he is autierized 'o perform ship captain:s duties only on
short. cnasta- runs ,ond vi ti. certain I lmit,etions depending on gross registered
tonnage on passenger ships.
For appointment to the rank ef -c:aptain, t:anmJree,n :tees, a Maritime
College degree is required
The new rank of merchant marine senior captain is created to replace
that of commodore.
All former activities cc =,,: nrgntii :t tonal nature arc taken away from
the deck service ex,.ept nauti al-tr? hn1 :,1 sipervieiun, which may be performed
only by captain, trensocean I1.n. limit for his grade This need is
greatest for positions in the de:;r, engineerinC, and radio services
To svcld decren~ies 11% . pay re: :e_nrfer or reassignments, offi-
cials whose pay wool.. other ile he made at will continue to receive their former
pay, i e., they will receive the pay o;' the new position plus the difference be-
tween this and the former pay
?frar.;fer ",f >ri:.. I -t i : h^_ ,:. o:r:1,1 is hied by a ,pees: ccn t ssion created
for that purpose in each organs at :nai unit front which pereonnel are to be
transferred. Decision:, are sot?er' to t!:'-- final approval of the federal Minister
of the Mer'hant Marine of aat};c.r,;;.,1 r-;nbcr cf tho- government f.-r units of re-
public or 1.---al .,ignificar-_' :n _e,er.t:or, :itb the Council fir Legislature and
the Development of the people r. Authority 'pre above ccm-missions will be guided
by the provision'. of r. Ire:iai directive tc be Issued in Sue time At this time
full application 13 to b?? made of th-- principle that all posit-or rights are to be
respected. and than, n?,tod_:? i, le d-cr ,r,: d, no, even those employees who do not
qualify for the psiticn, they arc now hotdinc, F"rsonrei -hi think that their
rights have been violated in n,st;,ncetit. t, n??: positions have tte- right of ap-
peal to toe higher snit:: a,tt.ort'r in with the pr,;vielons of the
State Employees' Law.
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