When it was passed in 2018, Australia’s Modern Slavery Act was considered by its tabling minister to be a “milestone” in the fight against the “heinous crime” of modern slavery. The Act may have been a political milestone, but a number of worrying analyses have found...
Doing Business the Canadian Way: Canada’s Struggle with Modern Slavery Legislation Countries in the OECD and beyond have taken up the cause of creating a rigorous mandate for addressing modern slavery. With S-211, Canada and its business community have an opportunity...
Draft legislation is out in the EU and more regulation is on the way that will redefine and mandate what is meant by effective Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) implementation. The scope of HRDD is ballooning to over 13,000 companies that’ll need to update their...
In response to burgeoning public interest about supply chain human rights issues, the EU’s mandatory due diligence law, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD), requires EU companies to demonstrate they can identify, prevent, remedy and report on human rights...
This post was written by Thomas Radal from Ulula and Margaux Dillon from Ksapa. Grievance mechanisms are a key tool in the global push toward responsible business. For the present article, Ksapa reached out to cross-supply chain social risk monitoring and management...
By Vera Belazelkoska, Ulula Organizations chart their own path to creating the systems, culture and processes to incorporate worker voice into their social risk considerations and decisions. Last month’s worker voice piece by SupplyShift highlighted the change...
