Repayment of Recruiting Fees to Workers – 4 Emerging Best Practices

Issara Institute, founded in 2014, has been working on advancing more ethical recruitment practices within supply chains since its founding, including work on aspects of ethical recruitment such as more transparent, ethical terms of engagement, more ethical and professionalized conduct on the part of employers and recruitment agencies toward each other and toward workers, and monitoring and verifying true labour recruitment conditions through worker voice. Two seminal investigations in 2018 outlined a feasible financial model for ethical recruitment in Southeast Asia (and technical approach for creating such models, and emerging signals of behaviour and systems change on the part of recruiters, suppliers, and jobseekers from implementation of Issara’s worker voice-driven ethical recruitment programming

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Legislating against Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced Labour: The Role of Parliament to Scrutinise & Raise Awareness

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The e-Handbook: Legislating against Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking & Forced Labour is a comprehensive guide for parliamentarians and parliamentary officials on legislating effectively against modern slavery related crimes. One in 200 p...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Financial sector Extractives & Mining Information and Communications Technology Agriculture, Horticulture & Landscaping Transportation/ Logistics Aquaculture & Fishing Manufacturing Forestry/ Reforestation, Wood & Paper Informal Sector Food & Beverage - Processing & Packaging Construction & Security Services Garments & Textiles Tourism, Hospitality & Recreational Services Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals Europe

Modern Slavery Reporting: Case Studies of Leading Practice

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This briefing provides examples of good practice found in the thousands statements made under the UK Modern Slavery Act. It aims to inform government and investor engagement with companies around modern slavery. The UK Modern Slavery Act (the Act)...Read More

TAGS: Recruitment Supplier Management Reporting Global

Discussion Sheet on Factory Health and Safety

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Keeping workers safe needs to be top priority amongst both clothing brands, their suppliers and the worker representatives. To give targeted guidance on how to keep workers safe, we have developed this discussion sheet which, in combination with our...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Manufacturing Global

Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Efforts

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This project sought to set out the determinants of anti-trafficking efforts, understood as factors shaping governments’ anti-trafficking efforts and influencing compliance with – and implementation of – international standards. It sought to do...Read More

TAGS: Global