Trusted recruiters, friends leading domestic migrants to abuse: ILO report
The Myanmar government’s labour recruitment offices are failing, leaving workers to scrounge for jobs through informal networks rife with opportunistic brokers, according to a new report.
In the absence of a functioning, official employment system, the vast majority of over 7000 workers interviewed – 72 percent – said they found jobs through friends, other workers or labour brokers. The International Labour Organization highlighted the finding in its latest study, the first in-depth look at domestic migration within Myanmar.
