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Clarity and Confusion: Updates to Canada's Guidance on Forced Labour Reporting Requirements

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/11/2024

As businesses finalize their reports under the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (the Act) in advance of the May 31, 2024, statutory deadline, Public Safety Canada has updated its...more

Navigating the Complexities of Forced Labor Laws: ArentFox Schiff's 2024 Guide for Global Businesses

ArentFox Schiff on 3/7/2024

In the last few years, changes to the United States enforcement stance on the forced labor import ban authorized by 19 U.S.C. § 1307 and passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) have fundamentally changed the...more

New frontiers and evolving risks in U.S. and U.K. human rights litigation

Hogan Lovells on 4/27/2023

International corporates are coming under growing pressure from claimants seeking to hold them liable for acts committed overseas, often by subsidiaries or suppliers. Claimant firms in the U.S. and the UK are finding...more

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

The Volkov Law Group on 6/21/2022

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

The Growing Importance of ESG-Related Supply Chain Due Diligence

Dechert LLP on 1/24/2022

There is an increasing legislative trend towards holding companies accountable for their own ESG practices as well as those of business partners within their supply chain. ...more

Europe and Canada Seek to Mandate Human Rights Due Diligence and Transparency Obligations on Companies and Their Global Partners

Littler on 10/28/2021

This year has seen a number of international and regional legislative efforts imposing human rights due diligence and transparency obligations on multinational employers. ...more

Business and Human Rights: Recent panel discussion on the international, European and French landscape

Hogan Lovells on 1/25/2021

On 21st January 2021, a roundtable was organised by the Association Française des Juristes d’Entreprises (AFJE), Doctrine and Le Grand Continent to discuss where Business and Human Rights issues stand. the following topic....more

The Business and Human Rights Review

A&O Shearman on 12/15/2020

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

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

NAVEX on 10/13/2020

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

Labor Trafficking in Corporate Supply Chains—Where We Are Now

Jones Day on 12/17/2019

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

United Nations Takes Another Step in Developing a Treaty on Business and Human Rights

Littler on 11/6/2019

Since it was established in 2014, a United Nations Inter-Governmental Working Group (“IGWG”) has met annually to develop a multilateral treaty to attempt to hold businesses legally accountable for harms that may be related to...more

Littler Lightbulb: Highlighting Global Human Rights Topics

Littler on 10/16/2019

Human rights issues increasingly require the assistance of experienced counsel who can help employers navigate very fluid and complex legal, business and societal considerations. ...more

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

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/26/2019

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

Building a Modern Slavery Strategy

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/18/2019

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

Farewell to Roky and the Evolving HTS Landscape

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/10/2019

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

Germany Seeks to Mandate Human Rights Due Diligence for Companies and Their Global Partners

Littler on 4/26/2019

In February 2019, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (“Development Ministry”) introduced a draft law (the “Draft Law”) that seeks to mandate human rights due diligence for German companies...more

Stopping Traffick: Are There Slaves in Your Company's Supply Chain?

K&L Gates LLP on 8/3/2018

Are there slaves in your company’s supply chain? How do you know, and what should you do to find out? In our first episode of Stopping Traffick: Ethical Supply Chains & Corporate Risk, John Sullivan interviews Amy Groff about...more

United Nations Continues its Development of a Treaty Imposing Liability on Companies for Human Rights Abuses

Littler on 11/10/2017

An ongoing debate exists regarding the nature and extent to which transnational companies should be held directly and legally liable for human rights impacts. Much of this debate has involved calls for additional regulation...more

Strict Liability and Human Rights Due Diligence – too little too early?

Hogan Lovells on 10/19/2017

It was a pleasure to speak in Geneva earlier this month at a consultation hosted by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (“OHCHR“) on the scope for making businesses strictly liable for human...more

Human Rights Considerations & Best Practices for Energy Companies

King & Spalding on 10/13/2017

International human rights laws and norms are increasingly playing a role in shaping how energy companies conduct their business all over the world. Shareholders increasingly demand compliance with human rights norms;...more

Looking Ahead: Five Developments We’ll be Watching in 2013

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human... on 1/22/2013

As memories of New Year’s Eve fade, and another Inauguration Day winds down in Washington, D.C., it’s time to look ahead and identify key events and emerging trends that we think will help shape the business and human rights...more

Human Rights Due Diligence – An Emerging Requirement in State and Federal Legislation

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human... on 10/22/2012

Two years ago, in October 2010, I published a post, Human Rights Due Diligence and the Corporate Lawyer, that addressed the need for corporate counsel to assess stakeholder expectations that companies should be accountable...more

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