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• Enforce a zero-tolerance policy on the payment of recruitment fees among
workers
• Audit supply chains and ensure human rights due diligence with all
contractors and subcontractors
• Have clear policies in place for how to tackle the detection of unethical
recruitment practices within business operations and/or in the supply
chain
• Provide a mechanism ensuring the refunding to migrants of all detected
recruitment fees
• Refrain from the confiscation of workers’ passports at all times and any
other restrictions on migrants’ freedom of movement
• Support migrant workers’ rights to freedom of assembly and association
and collective bargaining. Engage in fair dialogue with trade unions
representing migrant workers
• Support the implementation of standard contract terms specifying job
description, wages and labour conditions
• Provide all migrant workers with a range of accommodation options,
including those independent of employment arrangements and recruiters,
food and access to health care, while working in countries of destination.
Ensure that all workplace conditions are compliant with ILO standards
• Integrate human rights due diligence in relation to the recruitment of
migrant workers into investment decisions
• Through international business associations and other collaboration
mechanisms, take a global leadership role in wholesale transition to an
ethical recruitment system, including reform of the economic incentives
that are perpetuating the exploitation of migrants
• Share and build upon best practices in the current system to develop new
business models that are compatible with international human rights and
labour standards
• Explicitly feature the human rights of all migrant workers in all company
and trade association codes and guidance
C.
Recommendations to international organizations
• Support Governments in developing more robust legislation, licensing
systems and monitoring mechanisms, through the sharing of good practice
guides and the development of robust codes of conduct
• Consider how more robust monitoring mechanisms for business-related
violations of human rights, accompanied by concrete accountability
measures, can be integrated into the United Nations human rights
architecture
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