Six steps to responsible recruitment: Implementing the employer pays principle

A six step guide to implementing the Employer Pays Principles, in alignment with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Reflecting the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity, the Employer Pays Principle is a commitment to ensure that no worker should pay for a job. It is endorsed by the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment, a collaboration between leading companies and expert organisations driving positive change in the way that migrant workers are recruited.

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Guide to eliminating worker paid recruitment fees and related costs (third edition): A practical step-by-step guide for retailers, brands, employers and labour providers in global supply chains

Guidance

There are costs associated with providing the range of services integral to recruiting workers, including advertising and sourcing workers, processing applications, interviewing, worker documentation, skills assessment, placement, orientation, trans...Read More

TAGS: Recruitment Global

Labor Share and Value Distribution

Guidance

This work is part of a series of Forced Labour Evidence Briefs that seek to bring academic research to bear on calls to address the root causes of the phenomenon in global supply chains and catalyse systemic change. To do so, the Briefs consolidate ...Read More

TAGS: Supplier Management Global

How to prevent modern slavery: A report by Unseen based on data from the modern slavery & exploitation helpline and lived experience accounts

Guidance

In 2021, the number of people referred to the UK Government’s system of identification and support, the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), stood at 12,727. Of those, only 2,866 were given a Positive Conclusive Grounds decision, conf...Read More

TAGS: Sourcing or Production Recruitment Europe

The war in Ukraine and associated risks of human trafficking and exploitation: Insights from an evidence-gathering roundtable

Guidance

On 24 February 2022 the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It marked a major escalation in the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region that has been ongoing since Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Many milli...Read More

TAGS: Recruitment Sourcing or Production Europe