Responsible Recruitment in Practice

We welcome Future-Proof members to a practical workshop on responsible recruitment with Francesca Fairbairn.

Francesca is Programme Manager for Oceans, Shipping, Commodities at the Institute for Human Rights and Business. She will walk us through their recently launched Responsible Maritime Recruitment toolkit. The workshop and toolkit are relevant beyond the maritime sector.

📅 Thursday 19. November at 13:30 - 15:30

📍C. Sundts gate 17, 5004 Bergen (Grieg-Gaarden)

🎟️ To register, please accept this calendar invite. Members can register several persons. If you are not able to forward this invite to colleagues, please contact me at therese.jebsen@rafto.no.  

🔒This event is only open to Future-Proof members.

Responsible Maritime Recruitment Toolkit

The issue of recruitment fees in the seafarer supply chain is a deeply entrenched problem that requires effort from every stakeholder in the industry as well as advocacy and awareness-raising.  IHRB has recently launched the Responsible Maritime Recruitment toolkit, a tool to help the maritime industry tackle recruitment fees.  It provides information on where companies can look within their own systems, and what they can do, both internally and outwardly, to eliminate this illegal and harmful practice from the shipping industry and is backed by over 30 major global shipowners, ship operators, charterers and container cargo owners, insurers and investors.

The tool provides a simple five-phase approach to risk management and compliance to help companies identify and mitigate recruitment fee risks in their operations and supply chains, and the phases move from foundational controls to active oversight, supported by collective action throughout. 

In this seminar we will have a walk-through of the toolkit and the five-phase approach, followed by group discussions and a Q&A session

Link to the Employers Toolkit:

Employers Toolkit

Statistics on the prevalence of this practice:

Prevalence of Recruitment Fees

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Agenda:

- Welcome

- Context and background information

- Recruitment fees beyond the sea

- Walk-through of the Employers Toolkit and the five-phase approach 

1. Carry out internal baseline assessment

2. Examine budget & cost transparency

3. Carry out due diligence on crewing agencies or operations

4. Carry out ongoing monitoring

5. Follow escalation decision tree

- Discussion and questions