Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery Legislation Compliance

Human Trafficking Consulting supported by iPoint Supply Chain Survey: Manage risks and protect your brand with Human Trafficking

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Our Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery Legislation Consulting Services

Based on close monitoring of existing and upcoming regulations, guidelines, and industry standards, iPoint’s Consulting Services for Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery Legislation support the key stages of your risk management and due diligence process.

eLRT electronic – Labor Rights Template

To facilitates the collection, analysis, communication, and reporting of the relevant anti-slavery measures through the supply and provision chains in accordance with the regulatory and company-specific requirements iPoint has developed eLRT, short for electronic Labor Rights Template. eLRT is a free, open-access, Excel-based template designed to support companies in their compliance with global human trafficking and modern-day slavery legislation.

Step 1: Development of a human trafficking framework for the private sector

Step 2: electronic Labor Rights Template to collect information from your supply chain

Step 3: The electronic Labor Rights Application can be used with the iPoint Supply Chain Survey on the iPoint SustainHub

Both, eLRT and eLRT Lite (a concise version for high-volume risk identification), and the framework are available for download on eLRT.org

Benefits

Better strategic understanding of the risks and impacts of your company’s human rights-related activities
Enhanced risk management as well as improvement of risk identification and to meet your company’s long-term social, environmental, and financial performance goals

Features

Continuously monitoring the rapidly evolving landscape of global regulations in the field of human rights and assessing their impact on your company and supply chain
Aligning your internal processes with leading standards and guidelines such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs, 2011)
Defining your anti-slavery and human trafficking policy commitments and implementing them through consistent and dependable due diligence processes, impact assessments, and compliance systems

Services

Refining existing compliance programs to meet current and upcoming anti-slavery and human trafficking regulations
Collecting, analyzing, managing, and reporting the relevant information in accordance with the regulatory and company-specific requirements

Conducting supplier surveys, follow-ups, data quality checks, and providing response status reports as a basis for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing human rights-related high risk areas in your company and your supply chain
Retrieving and reviewing supplier responses and supporting documents
Creating corporate reports on all human rights-related information
Corrective Action Management

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What is Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery Legislation?

Emerging regulations such as the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2010), the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014), and the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) have turned the spotlight on human rights issues as a major financial and reputational risk for companies and their supply chains.

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These regulations require companies to take action to tackle and eradicate human trafficking, slavery, child labor, and other forms of human rights abuses within their own operations and supply chains. In order to comply with this emerging set of regulations, companies will need to improve their due diligence processes and increase transparency regarding how they identify and respond to human rights issues and risks.

Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks related to human rights abuses throughout businesses and across supply chains pose a huge challenge to manufacturing companies due to the intricate web of internal and external entities involved.

Furthermore, many companies rely on haphazardly grown systems to support their risk management efforts, using a combination of manual procedures, spreadsheets, and auditing/certification processes spread across various regions, corporate silos, and numerous suppliers and sub-suppliers.

Continuously monitoring activities and risk indicators as well as producing one consistent, reliable overall corporate view of the status and extent of human rights-related risks can be extremely difficult when using home-grown systems, tools and techniques and resulting in inefficient, unreliable and frustrating processes.

Step 1: A framework for the private sector

In April 2016, iPoint released a commissioned framework of human trafficking and slavery laws for the private sector. Authored by Dr. Chris Bayer, the framework shows how the relevant legislation in the USA, EU, and UK relate to each other thematically. This may not only assist companies in their design of relevant programs, but furthermore frames the design of an integrated, liability-based reporting and compliance solution.

Step 2: The electronic Labor Rights Template

The next step for iPoint is to make public an open-access anti-slavery reporting template that businesses may use for their supply chain reporting needs. To this end, the tool, aka eLRT (Electronic Labor Rights Template), is currently being reviewed by a stakeholder forum comprised of private sector, civil society, and government representatives to ensure the template’s sensitivity, robusticity, and responsiveness to the present reporting requirements and at-risk labor practices.

The template, along with the framework, will be available for download on the website

www.elrt.org

Step 3:The electronic Labor Rights Module

In parallel, iPoint will also release a module within the iPoint Compliance Agent and Platform – which also includes, e.g., the Conflict Minerals tool used by 52,000 companies – for processing the data.