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Brochure
Fair Recruitment Initiative Strategy 2021-2025 - Summary
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...
Fair recruitment
Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for Journalists in Viet Nam
This toolkit was created to help journalists in Viet Nam report on fair recruitment and forced labour.
Fair recruitment
Central American migrant women in Mexico: Informality in recruitment and employment
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...
Labour Migration
Ensuring migrant workers access to justice: An assessment of Thailand’s Migrant Workers Assistance Centers
To increase migrant workers’ access to justice in Thailand, in 2016 the Ministry of Labour established Migrant Workers Assistance Centers in ten provinces throughout the country. By April 2019, the ten centres had delivered services to nearly...
Global Study on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs
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...
Research brief
Migration cost survey among Indonesian and Filipina domestic workers in Malaysia
This research brief presents the findings of the survey on migration cost of Indonesian and Filipina domestic workers in Malaysia. The survey is guided by the ILO’s 2019 General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment and...
Fact sheet
ILO-FCDO Partnership programme on fair recruitment and decent work for women migrant workers in South Asia and the Middle East – Phase II -...
Fair recruitment
Recruitment agency business practices and role of intermediaries in the foreign employment industry in Pakistan
This study employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies for the profiling of recruitment intermediaries, understanding their business practices and developing a set of recommendations for effective management.
Fair recruitment
Policy Brief: Improving recruitment agency business practices in Sri Lanka
This Policy Brief provides suggestions for Licensed Foreign Employment Agents (LFEAs), the SLFBFE and other stakeholders in the recruitment industry on improving business practices in the recruitment of workers for foreign employment and reducing...
Promoting fair recruitment and employment: A guidance tool for hotels in Qatar
This Guidance Tool has been developed as a resource to promote fair recruitment and employment standards in the hospitality sector in Qatar. It aims to support hotel companies in Qatar to respond to labour rights challenges by implementing...
Hand hygiene at the workplace: an essential occupational safety and health prevention and control measure against COVID-19
ILO working paper
Study on the recruitment and placement of migrant fishers from Indonesia: an ILO working paper
This study is based on research was commissioned to address one of the key concerns of the Indonesian Government and stakeholders: the protection of Indonesian migrant fishers. Under the Indonesian Medium-Term Development Plan 2015–2019, a...
Report
Malaysia: Review of admission and recruitment practices of Indonesian workers in the plantation and domestic work sectors and related...
Indonesian workers have provided the bulk of the workforce for the plantation and the domestic work sectors in Malaysia, thereby making a significant contribution to the Malaysian economy over the years. This study on the admission and recruitment...
Report
Enhancing standard employment contracts for migrant workers in the plantation and domestic work sectors in Malaysia
This paper was prepared for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on the use and application of standard contracts for migrant workers in the domestic and plantation sectors in Malaysia. The paper identifies areas where use and application of standard...
ILO Brief
Ensuring fair recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic
This brief highlights the key challenges in national and international recruitment of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, how the ILO is responding, and recommended policies and measures. The Annex outlines practices undertaken by ILO stakeholders...
How to Facilitate the Recognition of Skills of Migrant Workers: Guide for Employment Services Providers
This second edition of the guide includes recent developments in enhancing the migration services offered by various employment services providers. Its purpose is to keep this useful tool up to date and reflect new and emerging needs, as well as...
Facilitator’s Notes
Training Employment Services Providers on How to Facilitate the Recognition of Skills of Migrant Workers: Facilitator’s Notes
These Facilitator’s notes are an updated version of the 2017 publication. They reflect new labour migration needs and trends, including in the COVID-19 context, and share good practices. They are intended to contribute to addressing the challenges...
COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace
Impact of COVID-19 on Nepali Migrant Workers: Protecting Nepali Migrant Workers during the Health and Economic Crisis
The brief provides information on impact of the health and economic crisis arising from the COVID-19 pandemic on Nepali migrant workers and identifies a number of key recommendations to assist governments and other stakeholders in designing COVID-19...
Fair recruitment
Regional study on defining recruitment fees and related costs: The Americas
This study assesses regional and national policies and legislation on defining recruitment fees and related costs in the Americas.
Fair recruitment
Fair recruitment country brief: Pakistan
This brief provides an overview of fair recruitment challenges and opportunities in Pakistan, and priorities for action for the REFRAME project.