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Migrant workers will benefit from new ILO guidance on wage protection outlining relevant international labor standards.The Guidance Note focuses on wage issues faced by migrant workers including non-payment and late payment of wages. According to the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations CEACR these problems can lead to debt bondage and forced labour.Adequate wages and their punctual payment are essential to guarantee decent work and social justice and have the most direct and tangible effect on the daily lives of workers. Countless families and communities depend on remittances from the families of migrant workers.Migrant workers can experience discrimination xenophobia and racism unfair hiring processes and restrictions based on their immigration status that can contribute to labor and wage abuses. The issue of non-payment of wages is one of the most common complaints of low-wage migrant workers and especially of workers in an irregular situation.Before the pandemic wage-related abuses were already a major labor rights concern for migrant workers especially in crisis contexts such as conflict which can result in workers having to quickly leave the workplace. destination country without obtaining their rights said Michelle Leighton Head of the ILOs Labor Migration Branch. However the COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented challenge to the protection of wages.Governments around the world recognized this issue in the International Migration Review Forums 2022 Statement of Progress pledging to enhance international cooperation to enable the recovery of earned wages benefits and rights for returned migrants. .Wages must be paid in full and in a predictable manner for workers to receive the benefits expected from the wages they earn.The punctual payment of wages requires a wide range of measures not only at the legislative level but also in practice as well as an open and continuous dialogue with and between the social partners said Katerine Landuyt Technical Specialist at the Sub-directorate for ILO Labor Migration.The Guidance Note was launched in a virtual event on April 27 2023.
