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The Volkov Law Group

The UK Modern Slavery Act: Easy Wins and Practical Compliance (Part II of II)

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In Part I, we discussed the basics behind the UK Modern Slavery Act of 2015.  To briefly reiterate, that Act requires any company doing business in the UK with an annual turnover of £36 million or more to publicize their...more

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Compliance With the UK Modern Slavery Act: What It Means for Companies (Part I of II)

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If you follow our blog, you’ll notice lately we’ve been writing frequently on topics related to human trafficking and modern slavery.  This is no accident, as new laws and regulations related to this growing area of...more

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Hot Topics in International Trade. Braumiller Law Group Partner & Founder Adrienne Braumiller joins Vp of Marketing Bob Brewer for...

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Braumiller Law Group Partner & Founder Adrienne Braumiller covers an update on Forced Labor. It's about China......sort of, based on some new data....more

K&L Gates LLP

Australia's Modern Slavery Act - A 'Stroll to Slightly Higher Ground' Rather than a 'Race to the Top'? The Final Report of the...

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The McMillan Report (Report) of the statutory review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (Act) was released on 25 May 2023. The Report makes a total of 30 recommendations principally directed to enhance and strengthen the...more

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Responsible Labor Report: 2022–2023

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The prevention of forced labor in the global supply chain has been elevated in visibility and consequence over the last several years. In 2022, the emphasis focused largely, though not exclusively, on trade remedies. The...more

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Private Attorneys General: Enforcing Human Rights Through Corporate Supply Chain and Risk Management (Part I of II)

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The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine have disrupted supply chains and heightened the need for supply chain due diligence to ensure business continuity and sustainability. Coupled with these events are...more

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Report Identifies Weaknesses in UK Companies’ Modern Slavery Act Statements

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A recent report concluded that modern slavery considerations are still not a mainstream concern for many companies. In April 2022, the Financial Reporting Council, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, and Lancaster...more

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Fair Trade and Fair Supply Chains

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Numerous companies have engaged for decades - on a voluntary basis – to ensure observance of fair-trade standards, human rights due diligence, and environmental protection, taking responsibility for their supply chains,...more

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UK Government Launches Single Reporting Portal for Modern Slavery Act Obligations

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Following the Home Office’s 2020 response to the 2019 ‘Transparency in Supply Chains Consultation’, the UK government has launched an online central registry of statements published in compliance with requirements under...more

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A “smarter mix” to combat modern slavery and human rights risks - the UK Government’s recent measures signal the increasing...

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The UK Government’s recent announcement emphasises a more ambitious modern slavery agenda and, specifically, the use of a “smarter mix” of measures across policy, regulation, stakeholder expectations and corporate practice to...more

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The Business and Human Rights Review

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As the world continues to battle against the Covid-19 pandemic, the resulting economic and social stress has brought many human rights issues to the fore, exacerbating systemic issues and generating new challenges. Yet the...more

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The New Australian Modern Slavery Register

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As a world first and in a milestone step, on 27 November 2020, the Australian government's publicly accessible Online Register for Modern Slavery Statements uploaded the first tranche of statements under the Modern Slavery...more

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ESG Litigation Roadmap: What You Need to Know - Fall 2020

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Followers of the financial press will not have failed to note the prominence of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) developments in recent years, whether through regulatory proposals, statements from asset managers...more

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Finding the ‘S’ in ESG: Boardroom and Employee Considerations

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Investors have historically overlooked social factors amid a focus on the environmental and governance counterparts as they assess the merit of an investment. This may have been due in part to the difficulty in quantifying...more

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UK Government Proposes Tighter Reporting Requirements Under Modern Slavery Act, but No Action on Enforcement Measures

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Following a review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (MSA) and the Home Office ‘Transparency in Supply Chains Consultation’ that closed in September 2019, the UK government is proposing a tightening of the reporting requirements...more

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Supply Chains Under Scrutiny: Targeting Human Rights and Forced Labor Risks

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This summer, one of the UK’s best-known online brands found its supply chain at the center of a high-profile modern slavery investigation. Within hours of the story breaking the company’s share price plummeted, as...more

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Corporate America can be a Powerful Force for Good to Root out Modern-Day Slavery

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Key Takeaways - Slave, forced, and child labor is a modern-day reality impacting some 40 million people throughout the world, by some estimates. Such practices are—and have always been—repugnant, and certainly have no place...more

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Modern slavery reporting requirements in Australia and the impact of COVID-19: What you need to know

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The Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (Act) requires large Australian entities and foreign entities carrying on business in Australia to report annually on the risks of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains and the...more

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Human rights benchmarks: Corporate performance rankings on the rise: The business case for understanding human rights and ESG...

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The strategic value of paying attention to areas that benchmarks assess - Some companies are skeptical about engaging with human rights and ESG benchmarking, because they question whether human rights and ESG disclosures...more

Jones Day

Labor Trafficking in Corporate Supply Chains—Where We Are Now

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Legislatures and courts, both in the United States and abroad, are working toward the eradication of labor trafficking in corporate supply chains. In the United States, consumers have sued manufacturers for failing to...more

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Slavery in Supply Chains: CBP Petitions Raise New Forced Labor Compliance Risks

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Third-party petitions seeking to ban the importation of goods made with forced labor may affect global supply chains. Petitions are being filed with U.S. Custom and Border Protection seeking to ban the importation into the...more

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Strategic Modern Slavery and Human Rights Risk Management: The UK Modern Slavery Act Four Years on

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When the Modern Slavery Act (“Act”) came into force in October 2015, it was the first legislation of its kind, aiming to tackle and eventually eliminate human trafficking and the various forms of modern slavery. It also...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Building a Modern Slavery Strategy

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This is the fourth and last in a series of blogs by our Global Modern Slavery Team dealing with how companies can navigate the changing legal landscape addressing the role of business and its connection to modern slavery....more

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Pioneering Dutch Law Raises Global Standards for Eliminating Child Labor in Supply Chains – Understanding the Dimensions of...

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The Dutch Senate recently adopted the Child Labour Due Diligence Act, a new measure with far reaching implications for the sourcing, manufacturing, and consumption of products that contain inputs from the bodies of child...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Farewell to Roky and the Evolving HTS Landscape

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We begin with a review of the current landscape. Interestingly, since 2015, there has been between one and three laws related to human trafficking and slavery enacted each year by countries across the globe. This has added...more

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