ILO celebrates 10th year of Fair Recruitment Initiative

The International Labour Organisation has noted the 10th anniversary of its Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI). 

The FRI, launched in 2014, is part of the ILO Director-General's call for a Fair Migration Agenda. 

The initiative aims to ensure that recruitment practices nationally and internationally are in line with labour standards, social dialogue, and respect for gender equality. 

"Advancing social justice begins with fair recruitment and decent work for all," said ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo in a statement. "The ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative, which marks its 10th anniversary, ensures that recruitment practices, within and across borders, are grounded in labour standards." 

Three new publications on fair recruitment

To mark a decade of its work, the ILO has released three new publications that highlight the progress in fair recruitment practices and offer guidance in moving forward. 

Among the publications is the second edition of the Global Study on Recruitment Fees and Related Costs. The report provides an overview of current regulation, policies, and practices relating to recruitment. 

It also shows the expansion of FRI's geographic coverage from 90 to 110 countries since the first edition was released five years ago. 

"These countries now regulate or prohibit recruitment fees and costs from being charged to workers," the ILO said in its media release. 

The second publication is the Fair Recruitment Roadmap: A Guide for National Action, which the ILO said offers guidance that can help governments, workers' and employers' organisations implement fair recruitment practices at the national level. 

The third publication is the new Recruitment Fees and Related Costs at a Glance, which is a 20-page brochure that contains data and trends about recruitment fees and related costs, gender-disaggregated where possible.