Beyond Qatar: Global Opportunities to Address Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice for Wage Theft
December 14 2022, 18:00-19:30 GMT
Join us for a live global webinar on migrant workers, wage theft and access to justice. The event—Beyond Qatar: Global Opportunities to Address Migrant Workers’ Access to Justice for Wage Theft—will feature discussion of the ILO’s forthcoming Guidance Note on Wage Protection, and will bring together experts and advocates from around the world to discuss next steps to ensure that migrant workers can recover the wages they are owed. Spanish interpretation will be provided.
About the Webinar
As the 2022 World Cup comes to a close, thousands of migrant workers whose labour made the games in Qatar possible have still not been paid the wages they are owed. But what happened in Qatar is not the exception. Rather, in every country around the world, migrant workers routinely face wage theft because of their unique vulnerability as migrants. A migrant worker who comes forward risks not only job termination but removal from the country, and once gone, their ability to recover wages in the country of employment usually disappears as well. Many return home with a significant debt of unpaid wages that they will never recover.
Migrant Justice Institute, Solidarity Center, the ILAW Network and MIDEQ invite you to a global conversation on next steps to ensure justice for migrant workers. The event will include a discussion with trade unions and civil society advocates in the Americas, MENA, Asia, and Australia on the challenges that migrant workers face in recovering the wages owed to them, and promising initiatives and strategies for systemic change. It will also include the presentation of a new ILO Guidance Note on Wage Protection, and next steps in the research that we will undertake in 2023 to support advocates (and governments) to drive this change.
About the Project
Following our 2021 report on promising global initiatives to address wage theft, Migrant Justice Institute, in partnership with Solidarity Center, the ILAW Network and MIDEQ, is undertaking new research and advocacy around effective laws and systems aimed at wage recovery. With input and advice from advocates globally, we will continue to develop policy models and reform recommendations based on detailed empirical and legal research into best practices around the world. Future webinars will present these findings and introduce new and successful initiatives to recover workers’ wages. Please see the project webpage for more information and to sign up for updates on webinars and new research.