The ILO launches a new teaching material on fair recruitment for migrant workers in partnership with the Global Business School Network (GBSN), and the Geneva School of Economics and Management.

GENEVA (ILO News) – In global labour markets and economies, workers and more specifically migrant workers, continue to face exploitation and discrimination, sometimes amounting to forced labour and trafficking in persons. In response to these critical issues, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Global Business School Network (GBSN) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have joined forces to launch a comprehensive teaching resource on the fair recruitment of migrant workers for business schools. This educational tool aims to address fair recruitment issues by empowering future business leaders with the necessary tools and knowledge.

Transforming industry practices through future business practitioners

Businesses are called upon to undertake proactive due diligence to ensure compliance with human and labour rights. By addressing the critical issues of fair recruitment practices, this teaching resource aims to foster a new generation of informed and conscientious business professionals capable of adapting their practices to respond to complex and emerging social, economic and environmental challenges.

This new resource has been developed in collaboration with leading experts, business school educators, and private sector representatives from Colombia, France, Nepal, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. This open-source material is the second module of a series of teaching resources, that can be used and adapted to different disciplines and geographic contexts.

This teaching resource has been designed by business school lecturers and global experts for the use of other business school lecturers. The resource is tailored to be taught during one session of a 2-to-3-hour duration but can be easily adapted to specific needs and to different specialized disciplines, offering real-world examples, case studies, and a due diligence toolkit, designed with a human rights and business perspective.

The module consists of 4 units with teaching notes, background readings, a repository of additional resources, suggested exercises, slide deck, case studies and videos, meant to be a living document that can be enriched and complemented though testing in the classrooms.

Consult the new module here.

For more information: Maria Gallottti (gallotti@ilo.org) and Julianna LaBelle (bhr@gbsn.org).