Publications on fair recruitment
2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Infographic: International labour migration trends from Pakistan
18 November 2020
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Infographic: Female labour migration from Pakistan
18 November 2020