Due diligence toolkit for fair recruitment

The fair recruitment toolkit developed by the Global Business Network on Forced Labour helps businesses, especially SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises), to set out a due diligence process when hiring workers from abroad. It features step-by-step guidance for companies throughout the recruitment process.

 

The toolkit has now been translated into French and Spanish.

In English   En français   En español

 

The toolkit helps businesses answer the following questions:

• Do you have an approach to, or policy on, fair recruitment?
• Can you identify the main risks?
• Do you have an action plan to manage and reduce risks?
• How do you track progress?
• Can you address problems and complaints?

 

The toolkit has an additional section on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recruitment, and points businesses towards useful additional resources.

 

Deficits in decent work: Employer perspectives and practices on the quality of employment in domestic work in urban India

This study report contributes towards understanding employers’ perspectives on existing working conditions and practices relating to recruitment, income security, employment security and social security available to domestic workers.

To do so, this report draws upon data from 3,067 households in two large metropolitan Indian cities – Bengaluru and Chennai – with variations across socio-economic status, caste, religion, neighborhood type and across households with and without women working for wages. This report is the second of a three-part series, with the first report looking at the total number of paid and unpaid hours it takes to reproduce a household in urban India, and the third assessing employer motivations, beliefs and perspectives about domestic work and workers.