Five On Friday – Five Recent Developments That We've Been Watching Closely

It's Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we've been monitoring.

This week's post includes a number of new guidance documents and tools, including materials on: the elimination of recruitment fees; assurance efforts with regard to human rights reporting and performance; and the development of social compliance systems.

• On September, a draft version of the  Responsible Recruitment Toolkit  was released for public comment. The Toolkit is a guidance document intended to help companies eliminate recruitment fees in their supply chains and specifically aims to help companies operate consistently with the "employer pays" principle, whereby no worker is required to pay for a job and the costs of recruitment are borne by employers. The guide provides detailed information on the types of fees that workers may be subject to, and addresses the types of remedies that should be implemented in instances when