On January 24th 2020 IHRB, the Interfaith Centre for Corporate Responsibility, and Investor Alliance for Human Rights hosted a discussion on the role of investors in driving the responsible recruitment of migrant workers in global supply chains. The Agenda covered:
- how flawed recruitment practices, and particularly the payment of recruitment fees by migrant workers to secure employment abroad, can be core components of debt-bondage, forced labour, and trafficking;
- how responsible recruitment is increasingly featured in government reporting requirements and public procurement contracts;
- how improving and professionalising recruitment practices will deliver tangible benefits to workers, companies, and economic development; and
- how the use of investor leverage, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, toward responsible recruitment of workers can shift the needle towards reducing exploitation in supply chains.
The event was livestreamed and recorded, to serve as a useful resource in collective efforts to embed the Employer Pays Principle around the world. Each speaker's slides are also available for download.
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