Draft legislation in the form of a Bill to amend the compliance transparency provision of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Article 54) had its official first reading in the House of Lords on 12 July. The Bill’s proposed amendments include the following: To bring public authorities within the scope of the compliance transparency provision; Read more »
Spotting The Signs of Modern Slavery
As you’ll well know by now, under UK modern slavery/human trafficking compliance disclosure requirements, an organisation with UK£36 million turnover that is selling goods and services in the UK is required to annually publish a slavery statement demonstrating what they are doing as regards ensuring that there is no slavery in the business or the Read more »
Predictions for 2017
Each year in January we sit down and reflect what are likely to be the compliance challenges of the year ahead. We share this information with our clients to help them predict their likely compliance challenges and we thought it would be interesting again in 2017 to share some of Read more »
Modern Slavery Update
This week the (legislative) Bill to amend the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 reached the committee stage in the UK’s House of Lords. No changes were suggested to the Bill so it now goes directly to third reading, at a date still to be announced. The Bill includes the following amongst its aims: To require Read more »
UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s Report published
What’s this all about? The UK’s Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland, has for the first time published an official report on his activities, which can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxt7kyIlWlEPYTUzRmZxclNYcE0/view. The report focuses on progress made in the fight against modern slavery with specific examples of significant achievements and outlines future actions. If generally-speaking the issue of Read more »
Protection under the law
Cordery’s André Bywater has written an article about complying with the UK’s Modern Slavery Act for Ethisphere’s special report on human rights. You can view the article here. André Bywater is a commercial lawyer with Cordery in London where he focuses on regulatory compliance, processes and investigations. André Bywater, Cordery, Lexis House, 30 Farringdon Read more »
Agreement on EU Conflicts Minerals Rules
General political agreement was recently reached on draft EU legislation concerning conflict minerals, which will impose compliance supply-chain due diligence requirements. We reported on the previous development of this issue in detail over a year ago here. The draft European Commission proposal (now amended by the European Parliament and the EU Council) consists of a Read more »
Modern Slavery Update
The first compliance deadline for the UK’s Modern Slavery regime is now well behind us. Those organisations whose financial end of year was 31 March 2016 must publish their slavery and human trafficking statements covering all the relevant activities undertaken by their organisation during the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016, by 30 Read more »
Predictions for 2016
Each year in January we sit down and reflect what are likely to be the compliance challenges of the year ahead. We share this information with our clients to help them predict their likely compliance challenges and we thought it would be interesting this year to share some of our thoughts more widely. We have Read more »
UK Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking FAQs
What’s it all about? In late March 2015 UK legislation was passed aimed at combatting slavery and human trafficking in the form of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“the Act”). The Act includes a specific compliance obligation which has been in force since 29 October 2015. Around the same time the UK government Read more »
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