Summary

This framework describes how multi-national companies, their suppliers, labor rights groups, trade unions and governments in the global South can work together to fill the governance gaps related to protecting the rights of international migrant workers.

Detail

Business, when working with government, NGOs, trade unions, and international migrant workers through a “shared responsibility” framework, can help fill governance gaps relating to the rights of international labor migrant workers. Business also has sufficient reason to do so in order to protect its own social license to operate. However, these multinational companies and their suppliers cannot do it alone. There is no replacement for government action, stronger policies, and legal frameworks to assure better protection of migrant worker rights on a systemic level.