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Hard to imagine that human trafficking and slavery still exists today, and yet they do. Here's a look legal developments in the important fight against what President Barack Obama has described as "one... more +

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

Global Spotlight on Labor Trafficking in Health Care and Corporate Supply Chains

Jones Day on 11/1/2022

Courts and legislatures both in the United States and abroad continue to prioritize the eradication of labor trafficking in corporate supply chains, including those in the health care industry. For example, in the United...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—Summer 2020 Update

Jones Day on 7/30/2020

Courts and legislatures both in the United States and abroad continue to prioritize the eradication of labor trafficking in corporate supply chains. Labor trafficking litigation in the United States remains widespread and...more

Assessing Slavery and Human Trafficking Risks

BCLP on 1/30/2020

The Modern Slavery Act (“MSA”) was introduced in the United Kingdom in October 2015 introducing criminal offences of slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking. However, its most profound impact has...more

Compliance Perspectives: Supply Chains, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 1/2/2020

Matthew Friedman is the CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization supporting the private sector in the fight against modern slavery. Previously he worked for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking and US...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

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

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

Modern Slavery Act: How to Comply with the ‘Corporate Provision’

K&L Gates LLP on 11/2/2015

On 29 October 2015, the ‘corporate provision’, section 54, of the Modern Slavery Act (the “Act”), came into force. All businesses in the UK with a global turnover of £36 million will now be required to publish an annual...more

Modern Slavery Act 2015

K&L Gates LLP on 9/24/2015

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”) comes into force on 1 October 2015 and requires organisations to publish a statement in each financial year setting out the steps they have taken to tackle the problem of slavery and...more

Doing Business in the U.K.? Modern Slavery Act £36M Threshold Issued

Perkins Coie on 8/10/2015

Companies doing business in the United Kingdom take note: the U.K. government just made the not-so-long-awaited announcement that businesses with an annual turnover of 36 million British pounds (£36M) will be subject to the...more

United Kingdom: New Law to Combat Supply Chain Slavery and Human Trafficking

Littler on 7/15/2015

The United Kingdom recently enacted the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the first law in Europe aimed at eliminating modern slavery and human trafficking from supply chains. The Act is anticipated to take effect in October 2015....more

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