All publications: fair recruitment

ILO key messages for the EU Skills Portability Initiative

The International Labour Office has contributed to the European Commission’s consultation on the EU Skills Portability Initiative. The Initiative represents an important opportunity to improve transparency, facilitate the recognition of...

Reporting on forced labour, fair recruitment, and labour migration: An ILO toolkit for journalists - ECOWAS contextualized edition

This toolkit provides practical guidance for journalists reporting on forced labour, fair recruitment, and labour migration in the ECOWAS region. It aims to support more accurate, balanced, and evidence-based media coverage, helping to counter...

Rapid assessment on access to labour justice for migrant workers in Ghana

This study examines how Ghanaian migrant workers can access labour justice to seek remedies for employment-related grievances, both in Ghana and in destination countries. Based on field research with institutions and returnee migrants, it maps...

Technical report on fair recruitment of migrant workers with disabilities

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is committed to advancing fair recruitment practices that respect human rights and promote decent work for all. Since its launch in 2014, the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) has sought to ensure that...

Second (revised) edition

Guide to private employment agencies

Private employment agencies are increasingly shaping the world of work — connecting job seekers to opportunities, helping employers meet skills needs, and supporting more dynamic labour markets. Yet with this growing influence comes responsibility:...

ADBI-OECD-ILO joint publication

Labor Migration in Asia: Fair recruitment, training, and development

This publication captures new and emerging trends in labour migration in Asia, with a focus on recruitment, training and development.

ILO brief

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Côte d'Ivoire: Development of an international placement service by the Youth Employment Agency

Côte d’Ivoire's Youth Employment Agency (Agence nationale pour l’insertion et l’emploi des jeunes), with ILO support, has developed an international placement service to promote fair recruitment and labour migration.

Fair recruitment

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Hong Kong (China): Promoting fair recruitment of domestic workers: Behavioural insights to...

This promising practice presents the findings from a behavioural research study conducted as part of the ILO’s FAIR III project, which aims to promote fair recruitment.In Hong Kong, despite the 2017 Code of Practice for Employment Agencies, unfair...

Fair recruitment

Justice across borders: Access to labour justice for migrant workers through cross-border litigation

The report investigates cross-border litigation as a critical tool for enabling migrant workers to access labour justice and overcome challenges tied to mobility and legal frameworks. It highlights successful case studies, identifies systemic...

Fair recruitment

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Nepal: Digitisation of labour migration processes for increased harmonization and oversight

This document highlights promising practices for fair recruitment in Nepal with a focus on the use of digital technology for increased harmonisation and oversight of migration processes.

Fair recruitment

Promising practices for fair recruitment in Bangladesh: Digitised management of recruitment agencies

This document highlights promising practices for fair recruitment in Bangladesh with a focus on the use of digital technology for increased management of recruitment agencies and facilitating access to labour justice.

Fair recruitment

Global study on recruitment fees and related costs: Second edition

The second edition of the Global Study is a review of 110 countries across all five regions to document current regulatory approaches and experience on the recruitment fees and related costs. It assesses progress, challenges, and regulatory gaps and...

Fair recruitment

Recruitment fees and related costs at a glance

This brochure presents key insights on global and regional data and trends on recruitment fees and related costs, including crucial information on measuring recruitment fees and related costs.

New global estimates

Profits and poverty: The economics of forced labour

This report provides new estimates of the profits generated from forced labour and assesses how profits have changed since the last ILO estimates were published in 2014.

The Migrant Worker Resource Centre in Tijuana, Mexico: Supporting access to justice and labour migration governance

It presents the context in which the Tijuana Migrant Worker Resource Centre was created, the services it offers, as well as the steps needed to continue its implementation and reach a greater number of beneficiaries in the Mexico-Central America...

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for Mongolian journalists

This toolkit was developed to help journalists report on fair recruitment and forced labour.

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for Mongolian journalists

This toolkit was developed to help journalists report on fair recruitment and forced labour.

Technical study on the “Challenges faced by Egyptian workers abroad in terms of access to social protection services, taking into account...

Labour migration

Executive summary: migrant workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining

This executive summary outlines the key findings of the report on migrant workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

Labour migration

Migrant workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining

Freedom of association and collective bargaining (FACB) are fundamental rights of universal scope that should apply to all workers – including migrant workers. The new ILO Report describes the special challenges migrants face in enjoying these...