Migrant Workers' Access to Justice for Wage Theft: A Global Study of Promising Initiatives

Farbenblum, B; Berg, L

Migrant Workers' Access to Justice for Wage Theft: A Global Study of Promising Initiatives

Farbenblum, B Berg, L

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Publisher:: Migrant Justice Institute
Publication Type:: Report
Citation:: 2021, pp. 1-74
Issue Date:: 2021-12-07

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dc.contributor.author	Farbenblum, B
dc.contributor.author	Berg, L https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8686-6283
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-19T03:54:37Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-19T03:54:37Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-07
dc.identifier.citation	2021, pp. 1-74
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/153361
dc.description.abstract	Systemic wage theft has long been part of the labour migration landscape in every region of the world. Though every jurisdiction has judicial and/or administrative mechanisms to address wage claims, employers in every country can be confident that very few unpaid migrant workers will ever use those mechanisms to recover their wages. This is because the system is stacked against them at every stage in the wage claim process. This situation is not inevitable. This report provides a blueprint for improving government and court wage recovery processes for migrant workers. It draws on analysis of select, promising initiatives from around the world that demonstrate how many of the barriers that impede migrant workers’ access to justice can be overcome. These innovations shift risks and burdens of wage recovery away from workers and onto government and business, and disrupt employer expectations of impunity. The report proposes specific, evidence-based reform targets that can underpin global, national and local advocacy, and support greater coordination among a community of practice working to achieve labour justice for migrant workers.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Migrant Justice Institute
dc.relation	Solidarity Center
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dc.rights	© Bassina Farbenblum and Laurie Berg 2021. All material in this report is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license
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dc.title	Migrant Workers' Access to Justice for Wage Theft: A Global Study of Promising Initiatives
dc.type	Report
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Abstract:

Systemic wage theft has long been part of the labour migration landscape in every region of the world. Though every jurisdiction has judicial and/or administrative mechanisms to address wage claims, employers in every country can be confident that very few unpaid migrant workers will ever use those mechanisms to recover their wages. This is because the system is stacked against them at every stage in the wage claim process. This situation is not inevitable. This report provides a blueprint for improving government and court wage recovery processes for migrant workers. It draws on analysis of select, promising initiatives from around the world that demonstrate how many of the barriers that impede migrant workers’ access to justice can be overcome. These innovations shift risks and burdens of wage recovery away from workers and onto government and business, and disrupt employer expectations of impunity. The report proposes specific, evidence-based reform targets that can underpin global, national and local advocacy, and support greater coordination among a community of practice working to achieve labour justice for migrant workers.

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