Empowering and protecting workers

Explore and exchange on how workers organizations can enhance their action to build migrant workers power, monitor recruitment practices, tackle abuses and advocate for improved policies and regulations.

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About

Workers, especially migrant workers, can be at risk of a range of violations of human and labour rights during the recruitment process. The FRI supports and partners with trade unions to advance fair recruitment, protect workers’ rights, promote empowerment and organization.  Under this thematic focus members will learn about trade unions strategies and promising practices on organizing migrant workers, as well as on monitoring recruitment practices and tackle recruitment related abuses. In partnership with the International Trade Union Confederation, tools such as the ITUC recruitment Advisor, research materials and tools will be shared and promoted.

Objectives

Members will have opportunities to engage with workers organizations globally, share experiences, challenges and opportunities in organizing migrant workers and effectively address recruitment related challenges and abuses.  The objective under this thematic are to enhance awareness and capacities of workers organizations to support and organize migrant workers, provide them with effective services in case of recruitment related abuses, better monitor recruitment practices and effectively engage with government and employers organizations for regulatory and policy reform.

Relevant thematic content

News

IOM Launches Fair and Ethical Recruitment Due Diligence Toolkit to Support Businesses and Protect Mi…

Manila – The International Org

New ILO initiative to help protect migrant worker wages in Malaysia

Wage protection

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico make progress in ensuring fair recruitment for migrant w…

The ILO study "Fair recruitment in El S

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y México avanzan en garantizar una contratación equitativa a las pe…

El estudio de la OIT "

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Resources

Establishing Ethical Recruitment Practices in the Hospitality Industry

IRIS Handbook for Governments on Ethical Recruitment and Migrant Worker Protection: Chapter 4 – Advancing inter-State cooperation

IRIS Handbook for Governments on Ethical Recruitment and Migrant Worker Protection: Chapter 3 – Strengthening the effectiveness of inspectorates

IRIS Handbook for Governments on Ethical Recruitment and Migrant Worker Protection: Chapter 2 – Implementing and improving licensing frameworks

Events

03

July 2023 Coming Soon

Interregional meeting: Strengthening cooperation of trade unions from Africa and from Arab States to advance Fair Recruitment, Freedom of Association and Just Transition for Migrant Workers

In-person

12:00am-12:00am CET

16

December 2022 Completed

ITUC Global online meeting on International Migrants Day

Online

11:00am-12:30pm CET

21

November 2022 Completed

Mesa redonda virtual: Protección de los derechos de los trabajadores migrantes en situación irregular

En línea

3:00pm-5:00pm CET

21

November 2022 Completed

Table ronde virtuelle : Protection des droits des travailleurs migrants en situation irrégulière

En ligne

3:00pm-5:00pm CET

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