Publications on fair recruitment

2021

  1. Workforce and migration patterns of Sri Lanka’s tourism industry: Implications for growth of the sector

    21 April 2021

    This report considers factors that drive workers from the Sri Lankan tourism industry to migrate overseas; seeks to understand the impact of labour turnover on the local industry; and identify the recruitment channels workers use to secure labour market opportunities overseas.

  2. Post-arrival orientation for migrant workers in Malaysia

    19 April 2021

    In the context of its EU-funded Global Action to Improve the Recruitment Framework of Labour Migration (REFRAME), the ILO has piloted an intervention along the Nepal-Malaysia corridor aiming at addressing challenges in the recruitment practices and processes in the electronics sector.

  3. Rapid Assessment: The impact of COVID-19 on labour migration governance, recruitment practices and migrant workers in Pakistan

    16 April 2021

    Covering the period from March to November 2020, the assessment examines the pandemic’s impact on labour migration from Pakistan, primarily to Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Its findings are drawn from an in-depth survey, key informant interviews and discussions with migrant workers, regulatory bodies, relevant stakeholders and facilitators of migration processes.

  4. Promising practices for fair recruitment

    07 April 2021

    This list presents a series of promising fair recruitment practices and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

  5. Fair Recruitment Initiative Strategy 2021-2025 - Summary

    06 April 2021

    The Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) was launched in 2014 as part of the ILO Fair Migration Agenda. Since its launch, the FRI has been critical to ILO’s work in the area of national and international recruitment of workers and has added renewed impetus and visibility to this important topic. The 2021-2025 FRI Strategy will continue to be grounded in relevant international labour standards (ILS), global guidance, and social dialogue between governance institutions and actors of the labour market.

  6. Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for Journalists in Viet Nam

    27 January 2021

    This toolkit was created to help journalists in Viet Nam report on fair recruitment and forced labour.

2020

  1. Central American migrant women in Mexico: Informality in recruitment and employment

    18 December 2020

    This brief summarizes the current state of recruitment practices for Central American migrant women, focusing on four key sectors including agriculture, domestic work, sex work and street vending, and focuses on migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, placing specific emphasis on Guatemala.

  2. Global Study on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs

    27 November 2020

    A global study that examines the laws and policies of 90 countries, as well as numerous bilateral labour agreements and multi-stakeholder initiatives to identify the efforts Member States have made to regulate or prohibit recruitment fees and costs charged to workers. The global study supported the ILO’s adoption of the Definition of Recruitment Fees and Related Costs, which is to be read in conjunction with the ILO’s General Principles and Operational Guidelines on Fair Recruitment.

  3. Infographic: International labour migration trends from Pakistan

    18 November 2020

  4. Infographic: Female labour migration from Pakistan

    18 November 2020