ILO Standards/guidelines to be ratified
The new government intends to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO) general principle stating that no recruitment fees or related costs should be changed to or otherwise borne by workers or job seekers.
“We intend to have discussions with the ILO soon with regards to this and other standards,” National People’s Power (NPP) politburo member Sunil Handunnetti told The Sunday Times Business. He said the new government wants to ratify these standards as soon as possible.
Currently, standards and guidelines are also said to be not followed by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE). A mandatory Rs 21,467 registration fee is charged by the Foreign Employment Facilitation Agency for domestic aid workers when going overseas. In contrast, SLBFE could easily waive this exorbitant registration fee in the name of welfare and protection, a foreign recruitment agency owner said.
The ILO has responded to a the Sunday Times Business inquiry saying that “As per ILO internationally agreed minimal standards, recruitment fees and related costs should not be charged, directly or indirectly, to workers, either in whole or in part, for their recruitment. However, in practice, various fees are often applied at different stages of the recruitment process. Prospective employers, public or private, or their intermediaries or sub-agents, and not the workers, should bear the cost of recruitment. Governments should develop legislation and regulations that eliminate fee-paying by workers and ensure that policies are effectively monitored and enforced. A wide range of governments are already moving in this direction.”
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