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A summary of the laws, regulations and legal arguments that require business to conduct reasonable due diligence on its supply chains to check that the labour rights of workers are being respected.

Many worker voice programs disappoint - but that's maybe because they are not set up the best way. This short worker voice best practice note tells you have to approach a program so everyone's needs can be met (workers, workplaces and sponsors).

If worker voice is not designed to benefit workers - then worker voice programs can disappoint everyone. What is worker voice for? Get this right and results can speak for themselves.

Trump's USTR Section 301 investigations into forced labour practices have generated an authoritative public record of laws and enforcement gaps.

Ethical sourcing, bank/corporate compliance teams and corporate treasury teams may face real liabilities — personal as well as corporate — if they authorise payments connected to supply chains tainted by forced labour. Forced labour also leads to financial crimes. This post explores the risks involved.

Too much data can be just as unhelpful as too little. Continuous worker voice provides new opportunities to dig into data - and well-designed dashboards and tools are essential.

Continuous worker voice is ground-breaking. But it is easy to launch with suppliers and workers because the platform is simple. This blog explains how to start.

Ask The Workers crosses the first million questions asked and answered over our app - within 6 months of its commercial launch.

Continuous worker voice delivers "meaningful stakeholder engagement" as required by emerging laws and regulations. Read here about how it works and why it is simple to implement.

New supply chain due diligence laws (proposed and being enacted) require buyers to complete reasonable due diligence including consulting with stakeholders. But who are these stakeholders?

Indranil Mandal, based in Kolkata in India, writes about worker voice, why it matters and why business should go beyond audit to safeguard workers in supply chains.

asktheworkers.com is our worker-facing site; it is a site for workers. It showcases our app with videos in 20+ spoken languages, why they should use our app, and how our app works.

With a supply chain stretching from pole to pole, Santa has a lot of elves to worry about. Relying on snowcial audits is not enough. So Santa uses Ask The Elves which gives him real-time visibility over elf and safety across the whole chain.

Taking someone's word for it is not due diligence. That's why an effective approach means we must Ask The Workers. Find out why this is becoming a new standard for labour rights due diligence.

How many of the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) relate to social matters - and how easy is it to measure performance against them?

We set out a simple theory that can be used to assess the effectiveness of due diligence tools for worker rights in supply chains - and there is a free app coming shortly using this theory - watch this space.

Implementing Ask the workers - a downloadable example briefing note for CFOs, including ROI and budget justification - 1 page summary and 4 page supporting note.

What is the legal and ethical status of data collected by interviewing workers in social audits? We thought that might be quite a simple question - but there's quite a lot to this topic. Find out what we found out!

Worker voice surveys have been around a long time. Yet they are not a standard component of labour rights due diligence processes for responsible and ethical sourcing teams. But there is now a better way.

There are new areas of risk emerging relating to labour (labor) rights - it's not just the traditional supply chain. This post gives examples of new focus issues for ethical, sustainability and human rights teams, and how to address them.