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Fair recruitment and decent work for women migrant workers in South Asia and the Middle East - Regional Component - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2350
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2350
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Migration
- category:
- Conditions of work & equality
- comments:
- Government and businesses seeking to set up G2B recruitment services need to be aware of the fact that there may be elements of forced labour inherent in such recruitments.
- challenges:
- The challenge is to reach workers, and find out if their living and working conditions, wages, leave etc. are in compliance with the law and their employment contracts. Most workers are either unreachable or unaware of the law. The workers’ centres do provide a link to those workers who are accessible, yet this is a small proportion of workers who need to be reached.
- success:
- In the context of informal recruitment agents who may charge heavy costs to migrant workers at the countries of origin, a G2B system formalising recruitments is indeed a big advance in safe migration.
- context:
- In situations where there is a demand for labour in specific sectors, e.g. garments, the potential for G2B arrangements is high.
- description:
- A good practice set up during the WIF programme relates to the Government to Business (G2B) recruitment system set up whereby the government of Bangladesh invites a company from Jordan for recruiting garment workers. The company sends the number of workers needed, which the GoB then announces. On a particular date, the recruitment officers from the Jordanian company visit Bangladesh for recruitment, select the workers, and then proceed to complete all the migration formalities.
When these workers arrive in Jordan, the company provides them with a hostel, which is managed by the company, and is located close to the garment factory. Workers reported that they often work from 7 am to 6 pm, with 15 minutes breaks for morning and afternoon tea, and half hour for lunch. So, the work time would be 10 hours. They earn a monthly wage of about $145, which is the base rate, and about $50 for working overtime, which could range from 2 to 4 hours per day. Most workers are not aware of how many hours of overtime payment is given, and at what rates. The workers are not aware that the hourly wage for overtime needs to be more than that for the regular 8 hours of work; most of them do not ask the employer for the details of the wage calculations.
Further, even in the domestic work sector, fair recruitment processes do not guarantee decent work. Workers who have arrived through fair recruitment processes may still land in work situations with elements of forced labour. This calls for monitoring separately the two objectives of fair recruitment, and decent work.
- administrative_issues:
- -
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/201124
- location:
- country:
- Bangladesh
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Lebanon
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- India
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Nepal
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- country:
- Jordan
- region:
- Arab States
- country:
- Inter-Regional
- region:
- Inter-Regional
- eval_title:
- Fair recruitment and decent work for women migrant workers in South Asia and the Middle East - Regional Component - Final Evaluation
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