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Deep Dive

Invisible Compensation, Responsible Sponsorship: Advancing fair employer responsibility for migrant workers

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Fair Labor Association, Domus 8.7

16-Sep

11:00-11:45

Conference Room 3

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While many labor standards focus on wages and working conditions, migrant workers continue to experience systemic inequalities because employers exercise responsibilities – and often significant control – over aspects of workers' lives beyond the workplace. These responsibilities include both the provision of essential in-kind benefits (housing, food, transportation, healthcare, communication) and the obligations created by employer-sponsored migration systems. Together, these shape workers' well-being, mobility, and ability to exercise their rights.

Topic in Focus

What can be done to address unequal in-kind benefits, responsible sponsorship, and worker protection in Asian industrial hubs, hospitals, and healthcare?


Overview

While many labor standards focus on wages and working conditions, migrant workers continue to experience systemic inequalities because employers exercise responsibilities—and often significant control—over aspects of workers' lives beyond the workplace. These responsibilities include both the provision of essential in-kind benefits (housing, food, transportation, healthcare, communication) and the obligations created by employer-sponsored migration systems. Together, these shape workers' well-being, mobility, and ability to exercise their rights.


Why it matters

Treatment and compensation of migrant workers informs forced labor regulatory compliance.


Who should attend?

Business, Government, Workers/rightsholders/communities, CSOs


What participants will gain

  1. A reframed understanding of employer responsibility in sponsored labor settings, moving from “procedural compliance” to “practical usability” for workers.

  2. A concise set of design principles for sponsorship and employment practices that reduce fear and improve safe access to remedy for migrant workers.

  3. Practical recommendations for integrating in-kind benefits into HRDD and living wage implementation.

  4. Greater awareness of how unequal benefit systems create labor rights risks and undermine resilience.

  5. Cross-sector dialogue on governance and accountability approaches.

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Gita Nauli

Senior Regional Manager, South East Asia, Fair Labor Association

Gita Nauli is FLA’s Senior Regional Manager for Southeast Asia, bringing to the role more than a decade of experience and expertise in sustainability-related roles, including implementing sustainability programs that focus on workers’ rights across global supply chain. She supports both FLA’s social compliance and investigations teams with accreditations and investigations. Prior to joining FLA in 2023, Nauli has managed various sustainability initiatives, such as the gender-focused HER project, supplier engagement, training and performance management, brand-run grievance mechanisms, transparency and reporting, responsible recruitment, responsible purchasing, and stakeholder engagement. Nauli has helped stakeholders develop awareness and build capacity to reach sustainability goals in both social and environmental areas, including supporting risk management programs for key suppliers. She honed her sustainability skills by working with companies at the factory level, brand level, and headquarters level. Nauli holds a master’s degree in human resources management from the PPM School of Management. She is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and speaks English, Bahasa and basic Japanese.
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Moe Turaga

Lived Experience Advisor, DOMOS 8,7

Moe Turaga is Australia’s leading voice of lived experience of forced labour. For the last nine years, Moe has been telling his powerful personal story, to explain the reality of forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking. In 2017, Moe described how he was trafficked to work in the Australian horticulture sector at the Parliamentary inquiry that led to Australia passing its historic Modern Slavery Act. Since then, he has been a tireless advocate for strengthening Australia’s response to forced labour. Moe’s speaking engagements to corporate, community, and government audiences have taken him to the national and global stage. At parliamentary inquiries, at ethical business and procurement conferences, from boardrooms to church halls, Moe has spoken out against exploitation, and for remediation of people whose lives are impacted by forced labour. Moe regularly presents to Australia’s top ASX-listed companies and industry groups. He is an in-demand speaker at responsible investment and procurement conferences. In 2025, he spoke at the 14th United Nations Business and Human Rights forum in Geneva. Moe’s knowledge and experience plays a key part in Domus 8.7 remediation service. Domus 8.7 is the service that takes referrals from Catholic organisations and corporate members. Moe engages directly with vulnerable workers - in industries like horticulture, meat processing, construction, hospitality and aged care. He maintains strong family and cultural connections across Pacific diaspora communities, giving him critical insights into the experiences of vulnerable workers. Moe’s advocacy is informed by his personal experience of working in some of Australia’s most high-risk sectors for labour exploitation – horticulture, road maintenance, the security industry, and as a disability support worker. Moe’s determination to overcome his experience of forced labour and thrive in Australia is a story of hope. His story is also a call to action about the urgent need to address the risks of forced labour in the operations and supply chains of Australian organisations. Moe’s passion to make the most of his life, has seen him play rugby union and rugby league at a representative level, and serve in voluntary roles in sports, community and disability support.
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Tiffany Rogers

Vice President, Fair Labor Association

Tiffany Rogers is FLA’s Vice President, Research and Development. From an early age, she’s been a lover of fashion, designing wedding and figure skating dresses, before working as an assistant designer for Tracy Reese. However, she soon found that supporting the workers that are making our clothes was her true passion to drive change in the fashion industry. Over the last decade, Rogers’ career at FLA includes over two dozen accreditation evaluations of FLA companies in the fashion and manufacturing industries, and the execution of standards that pushed responsible purchasing practices to the forefront of human rights due diligence. Rogers champions FLA’s award-winning Fair Compensation Program which requires FLA companies to measure progress towards living wages. Her expertise incorporates labor rights, living wage, and responsible purchasing and production practices to innovate standards and tools that improve corporate practices, factory conditions, and worker well-being. She also leads the development and execution of the FLA’s Gender Equity and Just Transition Work Plans that inform research, guidance, and projects to drive progress for workers in supply chains.

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