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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An Ethical Framework for Cross-Border Labor Recruitment: An Industry/Stakeholder Collaboration to Reduce the Risks of Forced Labor and Human Trafficking – Verite and Manpower Group, 2012

GuidanceStandards & Codes of ConductPublications

The Ethical Framework for Cross Border Labor Recruitment offers a set of specific operational practices (“Standards of Ethical Practice”) for recruitment firms that operate across borders. These practices are reinforced by a Verification and Cer...Read More

TAGS: Recruitment

Preventing and addressing abuse and exploitation: A guide for police and labour inspectors working with migrants

Guidance

Migrants with insecure immigration status often feel unable to report cases of abuse and exploitation for fear that government authorities will prioritise their immigration status over the harm they have experienced and that they will face seri...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Recruitment Sourcing or Production Europe Latin America and the Caribbean

Gender-Responsive Self-Assessment Tool for Recruitment Agencies

Guidance

This self-assessment tool was developed to ensure employers, governments and recruitment agencies have policies, codes of conduct, systems and training in place that effectively meet the needs of women migrant workers. The tool was developed by UN W...Read More

TAGS: Recruitment Asia

Recruitment Practices and Migrant Labor Conditions in Nestlé’s Thai Shrimp Supply Chain

Guidance

Seeking to better understand the risks of forced labour and human trafficking in the Thai seafood industry, Nestlé contracted Verité to conduct a focused investigation of six production sites in Thailand—three shrimp farms (one in Maha...Read More

TAGS: Aquaculture & Fishing Domestic Work/ Servitude Asia