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Toolkit For Suppliers

This toolkit aims to help companies that work in corporate supply chains to quickly identify areas of their business which carry the highest risk of modern slavery and develop a simple plan to prevent and address any identified risks. It is designed particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which typically face the greatest modern slavery risks across supply chains, but can be considered a resource for companies of all sizes as they get started.


compendium for Procurement Teams

As a compendium to the Toolkit for Corporate Suppliers, this quick reference guide provides practical guidance specifically designed for procurement teams to engage with suppliers, identify red flags for modern slavery practices, and address and mitigate risks of modern slavery among business partners and suppliers.


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Template policies for corporate suppliers

GBCAT has created free, downloadable templates for business across industries who seek to adopt a company-wide policy and commitment to prevent child labor and to address risks of modern slavery in their business operations and supply chains.

These templates offer an example of comprehensive policies and are subject to adaptation based on company context. Parts of these templates can also be incorporated into a broader policy on human rights.

 

Further Reading for Suppliers

+ General Resources for Business on Modern Slavery

Identify Geographic and Industry-level Risks

  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Provide country-level analysis of forced/compulsory labour issues in practice including relevant laws and enforcement gaps. U.S. Department of State
  • Global Slavery Index: A country by country ranking of the number of people in modern slavery, as well as an analysis of the actions governments are taking to respond, and the factors that make people vulnerable. Walk Free Foundation
  • Human Trafficking Knowledge Portal: Includes a database of case law and legislation across multiple countries with a focus on human trafficking. UNODC
  • NORMLEX Information System on International Labour Standards: Information on national labour laws, country ratifications of ILO conventions, and comments made by supervisory bodies on countries’ implementation of those conventions. ILO
  • Forced Labour Commodity Atlas: A database of 43 commodities and their relationship to forced labor and other forms of exploitation at the base of global supply chains. Verité
  • List of Goods Produced by Child Labour and Forced Labour: A comprehensive analysis by country of what products may include production risks of child labour and forced labour in the world today, including in the formal and informal sector. U.S. Department of Labor

+ Identify, Prevent, and Address Modern Slavery Risks

Manage Modern Slavery Risks in Recruitment of Workers by the Business and Using Recruitment Agencies

  • Best Practice Guidance on Ethical Recruitment: Good practice steps taken by some companies that may serve as examples or models for other companies looking to implement ethical recruitment policies, and drive change at the recruitment agency level. *Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility *
  • Six Steps to Responsible Recruitment: Outlines six steps to implement the Employer Pays Principle. IHRB, Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment
  • The Employer Pays Principle: This Responsible Recruitment Gateway provides access to a range of tools and information to help companies move towards the ‘Employer Pays’ model of responsible recruitment. IHRB

Recruiting Migrant Workers

  • Due Diligence Toolkit for Fair Recruitment: Helps businesses, especially SMEs, to set out a due diligence process when hiring workers from abroad. It features step-by-step guidance for companies throughout the recruitment process. ILO
  • Fair Recruitment Video: A short and simple video explaining the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recrtuiment. ITC
  • Fair Hiring Toolkit: Offers tools, guidance, and approaches to support the responsible recruitment and hiring of migrant workers in global supply chains. Verité
  • Responsible Recruitment – Remediating Worker-Paid Recruitment Fees: Identifies the challenges related to reimbursing recruitment fees and provides recommendations to businesses on how to apply remediation policies across their activities. IHRB
  • The Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity: Provides key principles that employers and migrant recruiters should respect at each stage of the recruitment and migration process to ensure migration with dignity. IHRB

Manage Modern Slavery Risks across the Operations of Business

  • Addressing the Retention of Identity Documents: A call to business to take action to address the retention of identity documents and its associated risk of labour abuse. References to relevant international standards and links to additional resources provide further guidance to business. UN Global Compact, Verité
  • Guidance on Operational Practice and Indications of Forced Labour: Guidance on how to spot the signs of definite, strong, and possible indicators of forced labour for both auditors and audit readers. It proposes a list of indicators, based on operational practice, which either independently or in various combinations, can increase the risk of forced labour through a worker’s employment cycle. SEDEX
  • Managing Risks Associated with Modern Slavery: A Good Practice Note for the Private Sector: A comprehensive resource including good practice examples as well as practical tools and checklists which are included at the end of the document, including pre-screening questionnaires and guidance on workplace assessments. Ergon Associates, ETI
  • Modern Slavery SME Toolkit: Practical guidance for SMEs on how they can prevent modern slavery in their business operations. STOP THE TRAFFIK, Shiva Foundation

Manage Modern Slavery Risks across the Supply Chain and with Business Partners

Remediate Identified Cases of Modern Slavery

Child Labour

Sex Trafficking

+ Business Policies, Practices, and Management Systems

Develop a Business Code of Conduct

  • Anti-Human Trafficking Business Authentication Criteria: Country and Site Level: Criteria that can be used by any organization to help it design an effective and transparent system for preventing human trafficking in its operations and those of its supply chain. It can also be used by an organization or an independent third party to authenticate the scope and effectiveness of the organization’s anti-human trafficking efforts. Verité

Develop a Supplier Code of Conduct

Develop a Complaint/Grievance Mechanism

Partner with Victim Support Organizations

  • Interactive Map for Business on Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations: A global map of organizations and initiatives supporting business on anti-modern slavery efforts. Find organizations working with the private sector to end forced labour, child labour and modern slavery based on geography, industry, and issue area. BSR, GI-TOC, Alliance 8.7
  • The Global Modern Slavery Directory: A database of organizations that address all types of human trafficking, including direct service providers, as well as groups that carry out awareness, advocacy and prevention efforts, or organizations that may assist victims of trafficking while addressing related issues. Polaris

+ Industry Specific Guidance

Apparel and Footwear

Financial Services

  • Modern Slavery: A Resource Guide for the Banking Industry: Guidance for the financial services sector to identify new money laundering trends that may be linked to slavery and in doing so, can also help to offset the risk to their own organization from illegal and fraudulent businesses. The Mekong Club

Food and Beverage

Hospitality

  • SEE Formula: Designed for the hospitality sector, provides guidance on scrutinizing and engaging with vulnerable staff and ensuring businesses have proper procedures to manage risks. Anti-Slavery International, IHRB
  • The Stop Slavery Blueprint: Guidance with recommended action and templates to set up strong processes and protocols to address risk of modern slavery within a hospitality company’s business and supply chains. Shiva Foundation

Information and Communications Technologies

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