Recruitment agency ordered female workers to take contraception

A Sri Lankan recruitment agency has guaranteed its clients that its workers will not fall pregnant, by ordering female workers to take a contraceptive injection.

Sri Lankan women looking to take up domestic work in the Middle East for families devastated by conflict, are being ordered by recruitment agencies to take contraceptives before migrating for work – The Guardian reports.

Six recruiters licensed by the Sri Lankan Government promised to provide employers with a ‘three-month guarantee’ that maids would not become pregnant.

The Guardian report found that many agencies in Sri Lanka make migrant workers take Depo-Provera - an injectable contraceptive that lasts for three months.