E-learning on Fair Recruitment Processes for Practitioners

7 September - 16 October 2020 The recruitment landscape remains complex and the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a number of challenges to workers and their families and to the industry itself. This course has provided participants with some strategic insights on how to promote fair recruitment and how to prevent abusive and fraudulent practices during the recruitment process. It also touched upon emerging practice on to address abusive recruitment in global supply chains and industry efforts to protect all workers’ rights and ensure their access to remedies. OBJECTIVES As a result of the course participants are able to: • Better interpret the relevant international labour standards as well as the General principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment and definition of recruitment fees and related costs; • Identify recruitment fees and related costs and the risks when workers pay for their recruitment. • Understand the economic determinants of informal/formal recruitment and measurement of recruitment costs; • Analyse the different recruitment options including private employment agencies, public employment agencies, bilateral labour agreements, workers’ cooperatives and directly through accredited employers, with tripartite and bipartite supervision; • Share good practices of laws, policies and enforcement mechanisms, including a compilation of regulatory and enforcement models that have demonstrated a measurable impact in reducing human trafficking and irregular migration; • Describe certain measures that can be taken to protect the rights of workers, including migrant workers, from abusive and fraudulent practices during the recruitment and placement process; • Disseminate tools and share research to help in the prevention of human trafficking and forced labour. • Analyse the key challenges in national and international recruitment of workers arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the appropriate policies and measures to be taken. CONTENT The online training has been built around the ILO/ITCILO training module on Fair Recruitment Processes developed in the framework of the ILO REFRAME project. It touched upon: • Module 1: Why fair recruitment matters • Module 2: The legal and normative framework for fair recruitment • Module 3: Public employment services and private employment agencies in a changing recruitment landscape • Module 4: Monitoring and enforcement of recruitment regulations • Module 5 : Fair recruitment in a global labour supply chain context • Cross-cutting module: Ensuring fair recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic