Guide to private employment agencies: An updated publication

Private employment agencies (PrEAs) are becoming ever more central to connecting employers with jobseekers, boosting labour market responsiveness, and working with public employment services. Yet, without the right safeguards, their growing role also poses risks - from unfair recruitment to workers’ rights violations.

To address these challenges and opportunities, the ILO is launching an updated Guide to Private Employment Agencies. The Guide is an essential resource for governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide and underscores the importance of fair recruitment, social dialogue, and adaptable regulatory systems that reflect local realities while responding to global labour trends.

This timely event on 28 October will be an opportunity to learn more on:

• The importance of developing and adapting PrEAs’ regulatory frameworks to effectively address emerging trends and challenges.
• Promoting PrEA operations that supports fair recruitment and internationally recognized rights of workers.
• The evolving role of PrEAs in a changing labour market, including how they are introducing digital tools to improve their oversight, service delivery, and responsibilities.
• Partnerships between public employment services and PrEAs for addressing labour market challenges.
• Social dialogue is key for creating inclusive and transparent legislative and policy frameworks for PrEAs.
• Case studies highlighting regulatory practices, enforcement mechanisms, dispute resolutions, enhancing accessibility and transparency, and regulating the recruitment and hiring of migrant workers.

The event will bring together representatives from from governments, Workers’ and Employers’ Groups of the ILO Governing Body.

Register to confirm your participation.