Consolidating Gains: Lessons and Priorities for Promoting Fair and Ethical Recruitment

In 2018, the ILO ad- opted its formal definition of recruitment fees and Fair and ethical recruitment can be defined broadly related costs such as travel, accommodation, and as the recruitment of a worker in a way that is lawful orientation.13 The position adopted by the ILO, IOM, and respects the worker’s rights.9 Different terms are and others is that workers and jobseekers should used to descri. [...] Meanwhile, the Employer remain the same.10 IOM’s IRIS: Ethical Recruitment Pays Principle advanced by the Institute for Human MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 4 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 5 CONSOLIDATING GAINS: LESSONS AND PRIORITIES FOR PROMOTING FAIR AND ETHICAL RECRUITMENT CONSOLIDATING GAINS: LESSONS AND PRIORITIES FOR PROMOTING FAIR AND ETHICAL RECRUITMENT Rights and Business and other civil-so. [...] Ascertaining the cost of re- ing of recruitment-related risks, such as the links cruitment along different corridors and for different MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 4 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 5 CONSOLIDATING GAINS: LESSONS AND PRIORITIES FOR PROMOTING FAIR AND ETHICAL RECRUITMENT CONSOLIDATING GAINS: LESSONS AND PRIORITIES FOR PROMOTING FAIR AND ETHICAL RECRUITMENT sectors or profiles of worker. [...] The inter- the private sector and civil society, as well as with national community and national governments may migrant workers themselves, to create the right con- need to review how and to what extent international ditions for fair and ethical recruitment practices to standards on fair and ethical recruitment can apply MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 14 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 15 CONSOLIDATIN. [...] 4 See, for example, the ILO’s General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment (adopted in 2016) and the Definition of Recruitment Fees and Related Costs (adopted in 2018), the Montreal Recommendations on Recruitment (launched in 2019), and the Employer Pays Principle (championed by the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment on its launch in 2016).