The last Modern Slavery Colab was held on 8 June 2023
THE CHALLENGE OF ASSESSING MODERN SLAVERY RISKS IN SUPPLY CHAINS BEYOND YOUR DIRECT SUPPLIERS
- Review the Agenda for MS CoLab Two
- Review the Presentation from MS Co-Lab Session Two
- Review the MS Co-Lab Guidelines around anti-competitive or collusive behaviour, or cartel conduct
The discussion covered
- Causing, contributing to and being directly linked to human rights risks - the UN Guiding Principles
- Country-level risk, Materials and resources risk, and Sector and industry-level risk
- Common risk factors for modern slavery
- Supply chains with known and emerging modern slavery risks
- Some of the common ways of assessing risks across your supplier base, including audits, verifications and SAQs
4. Specific risks to AusLSA members and their supply chains, including cleaning, catering, electronics and outsourced services
5. Key challenges for assessing, understanding and verifying suppliers
6. Electronics Supply Chains
Julie Petticrew. Australian Representative at Electronics Watch joined the meeting as a guest speaker and spoke about:
- Particular human rights and modern slavery risks in electronics supply chains
- Related environmental and social risks in those
- What Electronics Watch is doing
- How businesses (and Australian law firms in particular) can do better, and what they should do differently
- Questions from around the group
7. Cleaning Supply Chains
Dr Miriam Thompson, Director of Program Development at the Cleaning Accountability Framework also joined the meeting as a guest speaker and spoke about:
- Particular human rights and modern slavery risks in cleaning and security
- What the Cleaning Accountability Framework is doing
- Case studies of things CAF has found, the most common issues reported or discovered, and how CAF helps change processes
- How businesses (and Australian law firms in particular) can do better, and what they should do differently
- Questions from around the group
- Review the Agenda for MS CoLab Two
- Review the Presentation from MS Co-Lab Session Two
- Coming Soon - Review the Summary Notes from the MS Co-Lab Session Two
- Review the MS Co-Lab Guidelines around anti-competitive or collusive behaviour, or cartel conduct
If you want to learn more about the AusLSA Modern Slavery Co-Labs please contact Richard@legalsectoralliance.com.au
mailto:Richard@legalsectoralliance.com.au
