Implementation and enforcement
Tackling fraud and abuse1. Destination states should create the market conditions for ethical recruitment, by ensuring that employers pay the full cost of migrant workers’ recruitment and imposing meaningful sanctions on those who do not.
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A major research project on what governments can do to ensure fair recruitment of migrant workers
The Five Corridors Project attempts to assess how effective states are at ensuring that the recruitment of their nationals for work abroad, or the recruitment of foreign nationals into their domestic labour markets, is done in such a way as to protect migrant workers’ fundamental rights.
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Key Recommendations
Migration Policy2. Destination states should promote a fairer labour market for all workers, by introducing accessible measures to allow migrant workers to transfer employers in a timely manner without obtaining special permissions.
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Legal Framework
Freedom of Association3. Destination states should ensure that laws and practices do not discriminate against migrant workers, or between different categories of migrant workers, in their access to essential worker protections including the right to freedom of association.
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Recruiter licensing4. Origin states should remove incentives that push recruiters towards unethical practices, in particular making all worker fee payment illegal and increasing enforcement efforts with private recruiters.
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Grievance and remedy
Information for workers5. Origin and destination states should design grievance and remedy processes that take account of the power imbalance between employers and recruitment agents, on the one hand, and migrant workers on the other.
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6. Origin and destination states should fully explore, including by carrying out rights-based assessments, the viability of carrying out more recruitment activities themselves, as a means of reducing fraud and abuse.
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Bilateral arrangements7. Origin and destination states should ensure that any bilateral agreements are binding and include practical fair recruitment requirements with transparent oversight mechanisms
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