The International Labor Migration Focus Group aims to identify responsible roles for business in international labor migration.
The group brings companies together to address issues at local, regional, and global levels affecting international labor migrants in supply chains.
Members seek to promote responsible migration in three parallel work streams that strengthen policies, increasing capacities of suppliers to meaningfully engage with policymakers and other key stakeholders.
Work Streams
- Educate: Understand the issues and best practices to better protect migrant workers in your supply chain through speaker engagements with experts; assess the presence and state of migrant labor in your supply chains.
- Engage: Work with stakeholders to address key, systemic issues driving the business viewpoint in international dialogues and implement supplier-focused, on-the-ground tools, policies, and resources to support sound practices.
- Expand: Move toward systemic change through broader stakeholder engagement at national, regional, and international levels beyond individual supply chains.
What's Next
- International Labor Migration Pilot Project | August to October: A Malaysia-based project pairing two factories with a leading Malaysian NGO to build worker and factory management capacities around rights and responsibilities, workplace communication, and cultural understanding.
- The Global Forum on Migration and Development | November: A global process designed to enhance the positive impact of migration on development (and vice versa) by adopting a more consistent policy approach, identifying new instruments and best practices, exchanging know-how and experience about innovative tactics and methods, and establishing cooperative links between the various actors involved. BSR and the private sector will be represented at this forum.
Participants
- Apple, Inc.
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- JCPenney Corporation, Inc.
- Nordstrom, Inc.
Resources
Get Involved
- Contact us to learn more.