Publications on fair recruitment

Publications on Fair recruitment

  1. Ensuring fair recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic

    23 June 2020

    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 to promote fair recruitment during COVID-19.

  2. Improving recruitment agency business practices in Sri Lanka

    02 June 2020

    This study aims to provide recommendations for improving business practices in recruitment for foreign employment with a view to reducing the costs borne by migrant workers.

  3. Fair Recruitment Initiative Newsletter - Edition May 2020

    21 May 2020

  4. Regional study on defining recruitment fees and related costs: The Americas

    12 May 2020

    This study assesses regional and national policies and legislation on defining recruitment fees and related costs in the Americas.

  5. Fair recruitment country brief: Pakistan

    07 April 2020

    This brief provides an overview of fair recruitment challenges and opportunities in Pakistan, and priorities for action for the REFRAME project.

  6. Recruitment fees and related costs: What migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar pay to work in Thailand

    01 April 2020

    This report presents the findings of a survey on recruitment fees and related costs paid by migrant workers from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Myanmar to work in Thailand.

  7. Trade union action to promote fair recruitment for migrant workers

    01 April 2020

    This brief highlights trade union action to promote and protect fair recruitment for migrant workers through actions including policy advocacy, service provision and outreach.

  8. ILO launches new tool for labour migration researchers and policy makers

    20 March 2020

    The ILO has developed a global database of over 90 national laws, policies and regulations that have defined recruitment fees and related costs. By visiting the map database, you can find out whether a specific country policy regulates or prohibits the charging of recruitment fees and/or related costs to the worker; and whether it is applicable to national and/or migrant workers. The map provides the relevant extract of the policies and links to the policies.

  9. Review of law, policy and practice of recruitment of migrant workers in Pakistan

    11 March 2020

    This review provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks concerning recruitment of migrant workers in Pakistan. The review identifies gaps in relation to the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, and proposes recommendations for ensuring fair recruitment.

  10. New tool for labour migration researchers and policy makers

    04 March 2020

    Visit the ILO’s global database of over 90 national laws, policies and regulations that have defined recruitment fees and related costs.