Trafficking and labour exploitation

Rights holders perspectives of severe labour exploitation

A short documentary related to labour exploitation in some sectors of the agricultural and transport industries.

Severe labour exploitation: A Woman Captured - Trailer

A Woman captured – a film by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter

In Brief - Protecting workers from exploitation: boosting inspections

Workers are being severely exploited for their labour across the EU, and inspections are not effective at stopping this reality. Based on interviews with almost 240 workers – including non-EU citizens who came to the EU and EU nationals who moved to another EU country to work – a new FRA report outlines the problem and identifies ways to bolster inspections.

Out of sight: migrant women exploited in domestic work

The stories of the domestic workers FRA interviewed for this paper reveal appalling working conditions and fundamental rights abuses in private homes across the EU. These stories indicate that, seven years on from FRA’s first report on domestic workers in 2011, little has changed in terms of the risks and experiences of severe labour exploitation domestic workers in the EU face.

European Parliament exchanges views with FRA on severe labour exploitation

The Agency’s Director, Michael O’Flaherty, took part in a meeting of the European Parliament Employment Committee on 8 November.

Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union - Summary

Worker exploitation is not an isolated or marginal phenomenon. But despite its pervasiveness in everyday life, severe labour exploitation and its adverse effects on third-country nationals and EU citizens - as workers, but also as consumers - have to date not received much attention from researchers. This report identifies risk factors contributing to such exploitation and discusses means of improving the situation and highlights the challenges EU institutions and Member States face in making the right of workers who have moved within or into the EU to decent working conditions a reality.

Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union

Worker exploitation is not an isolated or marginal phenomenon. But despite its pervasiveness in everyday life, severe labour exploitation and its adverse effects on third-country nationals and EU citizens - as workers, but also as consumers - have to date not received much attention from researchers.

Severe labour exploitation in the EU

Severe labour exploitation: workers moving within or into the European Union

Migrants in an irregular situation employed in domestic work: Fundamental rights challenges for the European Union and its Member States

This report is the result of a project by the FRA on the situation of migrants in an irregular situation in the EU. It is the first of two thematic reports which complements a forthcoming comprehensive overview of the fundamental rights situation of migrants in an irregular situation in the EU's 27 Member States.

Child Trafficking in the EU - Challenges, perspectives and good practices

Trafficking in human beings is a major problem both in the EU and worldwide. Every year a substantial number of children fall victim to trafficking for sexual exploitation or other purposes. There are extremely low numbers of convictions in child trafficking cases. Overall, the report finds that the EU must do more to address the issue. The FRA calls for better legislation to combat child trafficking. The protection and care for victims, in particular, must be improved.