Verité’s recently released report An Exploratory Study on the Role of Corruption in Labor Migration examined three illustrative transnational migrant worker recruitment corridors – Nepal to Qatar, Myanmar to Malaysia, and Myanmar to Thailand – to identify the points in the recruitment process where bribes or illicit payments are solicited and paid; the entities implicated; the range and nature of such payments; and the corresponding benefit that accrues to the employers of migrant workers.
The report also details how recruitment-related corruption directly contribute to the excessive and illegal fee burdens frequently faced by migrant workers and creates potential legal risks for multi-national companies in origin and destination countries as well as under extraterritorial anti-corruption statutes such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act (UKBA). Verité gratefully acknowledges the Freedom Fund for funding this report.
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