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.

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.

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!

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.

The humans (workers) are missing from human rights due diligence. What would an ideal technology platform look like to address this? These are the principles defining the Ask the workers approach - and also underwrite how the impact that the platform can make.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This post explores what that involves in practice.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 2 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.

Effective ethical sourcing means backing up sensible policies with effective actions. This is part 3 of 3 posts exploring what that involves in practice.