Verité Paper Explores Challenges in Formal and Informal Labor Migration to Thailand
Verité conducted desk and field research to map out how jobseekers in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Lao PDR learn about jobs in Thailand, weigh risk factors and choose among the routes open to them. Through interviews with people on or connected with this journey, a picture emerged of a highly complex arena in which the needs of jobseekers, job-finders, employers, regulators, facilitators, and profiteers meet.
What We’re Talking About in June
Companies in Southeast Asia Lag on Human Rights | Netherlands Adopts Child Labor Law Due Diligence | New Belt and Road Tracker by Benn Steil | Germany Aims to Use Strict Law to Improve Work Conditions in Africa
What We’re Talking About in March 2019
Article Links: Condom supplier to NHS and British high street accused of “shameful” working conditions | Electronics Watch Releases Compliance Report on Leading Thailand Electronics Manufacturer | How the World Got Hooked on Palm Oil
FAR Definition Takes a Zero-Tolerance Approach to Recruitment Fees
Prohibiting federal contractors from charging workers recruitment fees is a cornerstone of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requiring contractors and subcontractors to take specific preventive measures to detect and eliminate forced labor and human trafficking in their supply chains. In December 2018, the U.S. Government amended the FAR to include a comprehensive and clear definition of what constitute “recruitment fees.”