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!