Human trafficking in onsite recruitment

Workers are at heightened liability to modern-day slavery when they have been brought to work away from their homes. This liability is initiated by the involvement of labor brokers. Labor brokers act as the middlemen, facilitating a connection between potential workers and their eventual employer. Now a day it is spreading like a virus, gradually it has made a firm grip on people management as human trafficking for onsite recruitment.

Labor brokers and employers regularly engage in contract substitution, whereby the terms of employment are changed over the course of the recruitment and hiring process. Additional fees charged by brokers in receiving countries, as well as deductions for anti-runaway insurance/forced savings, further compound the financial burden of workers. Once employed, workers are obliged to work overtime in order to repay their debts.

There are evidences that the high recruitment fees bared by workers are in some cases a subsidy to their eventual employers.

Not only  labor brokers but many consulting firms are also engaged in this practice, it is an offensive crime, people or companies who are indulged in such unfair means of practice are heavily punished  if found guilty. This is smuggling of population which is spoiling our habitat. Individuals who are finding jobs through consulting firms should  be aware of few points like they should have fully fledged information  about the background of the particular company, not to give original documents including their passport ,not to  give money in advance etc. 

Usually, consultants manipulate candidates by giving them false promises about the facilities they would be provided with once they are selected but the true picture differs. When interfacing the real picture the candidate gets a reality check.

Freedom of movement is curtailed through the withholding of passports, the requirement to put up a deposit for temporary emergency trips home, and the requirement that workers must pay their own return airfare and pay any recruitment debt in full if they wish to terminate their contract early.

The major area of concern is the ignorant lot who are not aware of such kind of human trafficking, so an attempt has to be made to educate them about the pros and cons of on sight recruitments and the parameters they should  keep in mind before trusting any onsite recruitment agency or consultancy firm.