RESPONSIBLE RECRUITMENT WORKING GROUP
Incentivizing transparency and fee-free recruiting
Our working group is developing financial solutions that foster a more stable and predictable business environment for H-2A stakeholders while incentivizing responsible recruitment practices.
Goal & Overview
Recruitment That Respects Rights
- Develop business incentives for recruiters to adopt responsible practices
- Expand or replicate best practices between labor mobility corridors
Our Work
What we do
The RRWG aims to co-create incentive-based financial solutions that promote fair distribution of risks and rewards among all agricultural value chain actors who depend on migrant workers. By doing so, it seeks to enhance the professionalism and long-term sustainability of labor mobility systems.
Focus Areas
Potential solutions
We are currently exploring several potential financial solutions to support responsible recruitment, including:
Surety Bonds
Can we reimagine the existing surety bond required by the Department of Labor to incentivize responsible recruitment and other best practices?
Results Based Financing
Is there a future where payments are tied to pre-agreed, verified, and measurable performance targets?
Working Capital Funds
Would access to impact-linked working capital transform business practices in the recruitment industry?
Participants
Our Collaborators are Deeply Invested
Participants in this working group have been tackling the issue of responsible recruitment for years – and in some case, decades.
They bring expertise from different migration corridors, agricultural employment practices, finance, and global recruitment.
Resources
Relevant Work
Our group members have launched many endeavors relevant to our work.
Browse their impactful initiatives blow.
- Social Finance & LaMP
The session explored innovative financing tools by Social Finance and LaMP to advance responsible recruitment for workers and employers.
- Stronger Together
AAALP was created to promote ethical labor practices in U.S. agriculture, aiming to reduce exploitation and improve working conditions for H2A workers.
- Empléate
Empléate promotes ethical hiring by ensuring transparency, compliance, and strong worker protections through every stage of the recruitment process.
- Impactt
The article explores how reforming financial incentives can complement compliance audits to address root causes of recruitment exploitation.
- Impactt
This resource guides businesses in reimbursing workers for recruitment fees to mitigate recruitment-related risks.
- Cierto
CIERTO has publicized its commitment to ethical recruitment practices, emphasizing transparency, integrity, and compliance with international laws.
- Cierto
CIERTO has publicized its commitment to ethical recruitment practices, emphasizing transparency, integrity, and compliance with international laws.
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Ana Maria Rodriguez Pulgarin
Coordinator of the RRWG