On the 21st of October 2019, the ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour will organize its first annual meeting to bring together members and interested stakeholders. The event will seek to engage participants on achieving coordination and collaboration, and focus on innovations that could realize scale and promote bottom-up engagement. Overall, the event will reinforce the focus on collective …

Between the 3rd and 17th of July, the GBNFL supported the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) to roll out a series of 5 workshops across Malaysia with small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on fair recruitment and employment of migrant workers. The workshops served to raise awareness among SMEs on fair recruitment and forced labour risks, present MEF’s survey findings on current …

In March 2019, the ILO’s Governing Body adopted a definition of recruitment fees and related costs to be read in conjunction with the General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment. The updated publication can be found here. To support members with engaging with new definition, the ILO GBNFL has developed an overview of definitions currently employed by companies and …

On the 4th of June 2019, the GBNFL held a webinar to present to members the findings of a mapping undertaken to provide a broad overview of the function, form and scope of initiatives currently active in supply chains on forced labour and human trafficking in order to inform the GBNFL strategy. Key findings included: a lack of integration means …