Verité’s Work Supporting Safe, Fair, and Legal Recruitment for Workers

Verité performs research and develops tools, guidance and approaches to support responsible recruitment and hiring.

Verité’s CUMULUS Forced Labor Screen™

Verité’s CUMULUS Forced Labor Screen™ maps labor supply chains using patent-pending technology to gather data on workforces, recruiters, and unethical recruitment and employment practices. The membership-based platform proactively screens priority operations, supply chains, and investment portfolios for the presence of the International Labour Organization (ILO) forced labor indicators.

Responsible Sourcing Tool

The Responsible Sourcing Tool is the result of the collaboration of four institutions committed to fighting human trafficking: the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Verité, Made in a Free World, and the Aspen Institute.

Lured by a job, trapped in forced labour

In search of a job to support his family, a man accepts an offer from a recruiter and signs a contract for what looks like a good job with decent wages. Once at destination, the reality is very different.

Making Fair Recruitment a Reality!

This video chronicles the ILO’s effort to establish a corridor to recruit fairly workers from Nepal to Jordan to work in the ready-made garment sector. It highlights the power of the various actors in a supply chain to make positive change when they work together to achieve a common objective that benefits each of them.

Fair recruitment videos

Series of videos on fair recruitment:

The ILO General Principles for Fair Recruitment (short version)

The ILO General Principles for Fair Recruitment (long version)

Guildelines for fair recruitment of migrant labour - Governments

Guildelines for fair recruitment of migrant labour - Entreprises

The role and responsibilities of trade unions

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Definition of recruitment fees and related costs

This video outlines the definition of recruitment fees and related costs, adopted by a Tripartite Meeting of Experts, held in Geneva in November 2018. The definition recognizes the principle that workers shall not be charged directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, any fees or related costs for their recruitment. This comprehensive definition is guided by international labour standards and should be read together with the General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment.