AUTHORS: REBEKAH SMITH, ZUZANA CEPLA, SALVATORE PETRONELLA
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Predictability is an essential element for the private sector to engage in sustaining safe and legal pathways for migrant workers. This seemingly simple idea has, however, proven to be challenging to accomplish in practice.
It is crucial to bring “doers” and “practitioners” on board to help develop actual practical solutions to address this as well as other labor mobility issues.
AUTHORS: MELISSA SAUCEDO, KIM GERONIMO
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“Collaboration and solidarity among workers are important for the success of the [H2A] program. However, the higher the debt a worker takes on to migrate, the more likely they are to abscond.” – AGUND member and aspiring H2A visa applicant
“What we are looking for is a legal and equal opportunity for work.” – female AGUND member and aspiring H2A visa applicant
Continue reading “LaMP Flights: Opening More Opportunities for Workers from Guatemala”AUTHORS: ROB ROGERS, KIM GERONIMO
Responsible recruitment has a cash flow problem. In this blog, we present the problem and some ideas about solutions that tie access to finance to responsible practices. Rewarding ethical recruitment by solving cash flow constraints may tip the scales in favor of responsible firms, who have historically struggled to scale.
Continue reading “We need better solutions to the capital constraints faced by responsible recruitment agencies”AUTHORS: MELISSA SAUCEDO, KIM GERONIMO
FAVORITE QUOTE:
“I have seen how Zacapoaxtla [a nearby town that regularly sends seasonal workers to the U.S.] has grown in the last years – I want to go to the U.S. to work hard, so more workers from my town get recruited, and it grows the way Zacapoaxtla has.”
– first-time seasonal worker
AUTHOR: REBEKAH SMITH
The year 2021 was a watershed year in the world of labor mobility: one where previously unthinkable policies were suddenly on the table, where the impact of labor shortages abruptly and dramatically entered the public consciousness as well as Board rooms, and where for perhaps the first time in history, high-income countries began to ‘compete’ for migrant workers. Everywhere we saw the signs of a new coming era; one defined where mobility is a necessity and the question is not if but how.
Continue reading “2021 at LaMP: What We Learned in a Year of Growth”November 4th, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Labor Mobility Partnerships’ (LaMP) initiative to strengthen and unlock the value of quality recruitment within the H-2A seasonal agricultural workers program has received support from the Walmart Foundation.
LaMP will work with leading H-2A recruiters and key stakeholders in the ag labor supply chain to support the growth and development of professional, quality recruitment operations in North American agriculture. The initiative represents an opportunity for industry partners to engage in making professional recruitment the standard business practice. LaMP’s approach focuses on market-compatible strategies and solutions to recruitment challenges with the ultimate goal of making H-2A work better for everyone.
Continue reading “LaMP’s Program on Strengthening H-2A Recruitment Now Supported by the Walmart Foundation “
Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP) 