The World Employment Confederation published a toolkit on the benefits of ratifying ILO Convention on Private Employment Agencies, 1997 (No. 181) and encourages countries to adopt the instrument to ensure that appropriate regulation on the employment industry is put in place and adequate protection to workers is afforded.

The toolkit on Convention No. 181 shows the advantages linked to its ratification in general, but it also addresses specific benefits for five countries in particular: Bangladesh, Lebanon, India, Jordan, and Nepal. Countries should ratify ILO Convention No. 181 because it is a necessary building block to employment growth, it helps reduce informality and undeclared work and enhances the protection of workers.

The toolkit is one of the instruments developed in the context of the partnership between the World Employment Confederation and the ILO in the Fair Recruitment Initiative, a multi-stakeholder strategy that aims at fighting human trafficking and forced labour in South Asia and in the Middle East.

You can download the toolkit here: WEC_Toolkit