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When the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Act) came into force, it was considered a landmark legal development globally. The UK was one of the first jurisdictions to introduce a legal requirement concerning transparency in supply...more
Three years ago, as part of the EU’s initiative on sustainable governance, the European Commission released a lengthy study on directors’ duties. The study affirmed what many already understood: corporate decision makers face...more
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
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
The Australian Government has launched an online register that publishes companies’ statements on their compliance with the country’s Federal Modern Slavery Act of 2018. The website, which is searchable and available to the...more
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
The UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the Act) was heralded as the first legislation of its kind globally and is thought to have inspired a number of other governments to introduce their own supply chain transparency and due...more
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
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
This is the first in a series of blogs dealing with modern slavery where we explore how companies can get ahead of the curve of the quickly changing legal landscape by educating themselves on their connection to this issue. ...more
MPs commissioned by the UK Government to review the Modern Slavery Act have published an interim report on the Transparency in Supply Chains Provision in s.54. This blog looks at some of the key recommendations and what they...more
On December 13, 2018, John McKay, the Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Guildwood, introduced private member's bill, Bill C-423: Modern Slavery Act (the "Bill"), which aims to implement Canada’s international commitment to...more
Last week, the Australian Parliament approved the Modern Slavery Bill and it is set to come into force early in 2019. This post looks at the requirements of the Act, how it compares to the UK Modern Slavery Act and what it...more
The legislation has been hailed for blazing a trail globally with nations from Australia to India poised to pass similar laws as the world seeks to meet a United Nations goal of ending by 2030 a crime estimated to enslave at...more
Australia has become the latest jurisdiction to target modern slavery, with the Modern Slavery Bill 2018 (Cth) (Bill) being introduced into Federal Parliament on 28 June 2018. Modelled on the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015, if...more
As part of the HLBaSE programme, Peter Hood from our Business and Human Rights (BHR) team mentored a group of lawyers advising tech start up RightsDD on the definitions of slavery and trafficking for their risk management...more
According to research conducted by the International Labour Organisation, more than 40 million people worldwide were victims of modern slavery in 2016, and about 152 million children, aged between five and 17, were subject to...more
U.S. companies with operations in Australia may soon be impacted by the establishment of a new Modern Slavery Act (the MSA) in Australia....more
The Australian Government has announced plans to release draft legislation proposing the introduction of a “modern slavery in supply chains” reporting requirement. ...more
Over 40 million people around the world are trapped in conditions of modern slavery, according to estimates from the Walk Free Foundation and International Labour Organization, including an estimated 4300 victims “hidden in...more
Disclosure requirements under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (‘MSA’) have pushed many businesses operating in the UK to gather and interrogate information about human rights risks across their operations and supply chains –...more
Updated Home Office guidance provides more detail of expected best practices and encourages smaller businesses to make a slavery and human trafficking statement even if not legally required. • Larger businesses must...more
Corporate counsel must increasingly assess the implications of new transparency statutes that require companies to make public disclosures as to their efforts to address certain human rights-related risks in connection with...more
The UK Modern Slavery Act, which was signed into law on March 26, 2015, is now in effect. In addition to setting forth muscular penalties and enforcement mechanisms to address practices including “slavery, servitude, and...more
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 is new legislation introduced in the UK with the intention of combatting slavery and human trafficking. Continuing the trend for legislation to have extra-territorial reach, as illustrated by the...more