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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Forced Labor: Actions Needed to Prevent the Availability of At-Risk Goods in DOD’s Commissaries and Exchanges

Guidance

The Department of Defense (DOD) has some policies and processes in place to prevent the resale of goods produced through forced labor in its commissaries and exchanges. However, despite their generally common business of providing reduced- priced gr...Read More

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

Using SAS® Text Analytics to Assess International Human Trafficking Patterns

Good PracticesPublications

By Tom Sabo, Adam Pilz, SAS Institute Inc. Abstract The US Department of State (DOS) and other humanitarian agencies have a vested interest in assessing and preventing human trafficking in its many forms. A subdivision within the DOS releases pub...Read More

TAGS: Information and Communications Technology Global

Crisis in Human Trafficking During the Pandemic

COVID-19 resourcesGuidance

Over the last few months, Polaris has been carefully tracking the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on victims and survivors of sex and labor trafficking. As part of this effort, Polaris has undertaken a systematic examination of relevant da...Read More

TAGS: Reporting North America

Tainted Stones: Bonded Labor and Child Labor in the India-U.S. Sandstone Supply Chain

Guidance

Three million workers are employed in India’s sandstone mining industry on a seasonal basis, with nearly 90% of India’s sandstone produced in the state of Rajasthan. Although the Government of Rajasthan has issued thousands of mining licenses an...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Extractives & Mining Asia