Company Resources

KnowTheChain assesses the efforts of 43 global apparel and footwear companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains.

This factsheet focuses on risks of forced labor in fishing and the fish trade. It encourages employers to take action, including participation in multi-stakeholder initiatives, training, and public policy advocacy.

This briefing focuses on best practices for identifying and eradicating forced labor at the supplier level. It explains the indicators of forced labor in the FLA code, provides examples of risks and violations reported by the FLA’s on-the-ground assessors, and recommends steps that brands can take to ensure suppliers do not engage in or tolerate trafficking and forced labor.

A useful background briefing by the American Board Association on the impact of changes to U.S. Customs ability to block goods made with forced labor.

This paper discusses proposed and existing modern slavery legislation, and proposes elements a harmonized international standard for national legislations should include: mandatory transparency; mandatory due diligence; and public procurement.

This report presents the findings and methodology of the ILO’s 2012 minimum estimate of forced labor.

This app enables business managers to create checklists to assess, prevent, and remedy risks of forced labor. It also provides best practice recommendations for taking action.

KnowTheChain's case study examines how 10 food and beverage companies are addressing forced labor in their sugarcane supply chains.

KTC's benchmark of 20 global food and beverage companies on efforts to address forced labor. The ranking focuses on commitment and governance, traceability and risk assessment, purchasing practices, recruitment, worker voice, monitoring, and remedy.

This briefing provides information for companies and other stakeholders about forced labor and identifies company practices that increase risk in supply chains.

This resource calls on businesses to take action against the retention of identity documents. It explains why employers should prohibit the practice and what they can do to prevent it.

This is a complement to the KTC ICT Benchmark. The guidance covers a range of issues—from policy development and monitoring to grievance procedures and remediation—and prioritizes areas of engagement that the benchmark found to be particularly weak.

Verité’s Knowledge Portal identifies the worst forms of labor exploitation linked to commodities at the base of global supply chains, covering seafood, timber, coffee, gold, palm oil, and many others.

Guidance for state and non-state actors to improve access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses.

The Modern Slavery Index 2017 assesses the risk to business of exposure to practices of slavery, servitude, trafficking in persons and forced labour. The index focuses on modern slavery risks at country level.

The Worker Engagement Support by Technology (WEST) are a set of industry guidelines developed to help understand how technology can best facilitate deeper engagement with workers within global supply chains. The objective is to provide a common point of reference for stakeholders, companies, workers, and tech providers on how to develop and deploy worker-centered technologies.

This case study assesses how a sample of ten food and beverage companies address forced labor risks across their sugarcane supply chains.

This key resource identifies guiding principles to help employers improve corporate and supply chain policies that address forced labor and human trafficking.

The ILO Helpdesk for Business provides companies with guidance on how to better align their business operations with international standards. This section answers FAQs on forced labor and supply chains.

This briefing examines the link between recruitment fees and the vulnerability of migrant workers to debt bondage. It identifies key steps businesses should take to promote an “employer pays” model to mitigate risk.

This policy brief examines the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and argues that best practice must go beyond the letter of the law to effectively address risks of trafficking and forced labor in the global economy.

The Dhaka Principles set out key human rights principles for businesses to enhance respect for the rights of migrant workers during recruitment, employment, and repatriation.

This commentary guide aligns with the findings of KTC’s food and beverage sector benchmark. The guidance prioritizes areas of engagement that the benchmark found to be particularly weak.

KnowTheChain assesses the efforts of 38 global food and beverage companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains.

This global report provides an annual overview of country-level engagement against trafficking in persons as well as important updates on the nature and scope of the crime around the world.

This document provides policy guidance and examples of good practice to companies on key issues linked to international labor migration.

A helpful factsheet on the new French law that requires corporate action on human rights.

KTC's benchmark of 20 global ICT companies on efforts to address forced labor. The ranking focuses on commitment and governance, traceability and risk assessment, purchasing practices, recruitment, worker voice, monitoring, and remedy.

This factsheet explains why human trafficking is an issue for employers and gives key steps businesses can take to engage.

Guidance issued by the OECD on responsible mineral extraction from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.

This resource provides an introduction to human trafficking, guidance on what companies can do to address it, and examples of good practices from around the world.

This resource calls on businesses to take action against recruitment fees charged to workers. It explains why employers should prohibit this practice and steps they can take to prevent it.

The ETI human rights due diligence framework can serve as a practical guide for companies when attempting to mitigate and manage labor rights risks. It can also provide meaningful ways to engage, negotiate, and collaborate with external stakeholders.

This report assesses the efforts of 20 of the largest global apparel and footwear companies to address forced labor in their supply chains. The ranking focuses on commitment and governance, traceability and risk assessment, purchasing practices, recruitment, worker voice, monitoring, and remedy.

Guide created by the Home Office of the UK to help companies that are required to comply with the UK Modern Slavery Act.

Guidance issued by the OECD for garment and footwear companies on how to ensure responsible business practices and sourcing within the apparel and footwear sector.

This resource is a searchable database of national laws and regulations on individual and corporate accountability for human trafficking and forced labor.

An analysis of 50 companies UK Modern Slavery Act statements who operate in sectors with known modern slavery risks. The report explores if and how companies include information on these raw material and sector-specific risks.

This reports surveys key risks of human trafficking in federal and corporate supply chains in 11 economic sectors and industries.

KnowTheChain assesses the efforts of 40 large global ICT companies to address forced labor risks in their supply chains.

This resource provides guidance on how companies can better manage migrant workers in supply chains, from managing risks to protecting migrant rights.

KnowTheChain worked to identify lessons and recommendations that can benefit companies across all sectors. This report is the product of those efforts.

This course is designed to help companies better understand the importance of human rights. It is comprised of five modules that offer guidance on how to integrate the principles of the Global Compact into everyday business.

This section of Verité’s Fair Hiring Toolkit provides practical tools to strengthen social audits, including interview guides for workers, recruiters, and employers.

This section of Verité’s Fair Hiring Toolkit provides guidance on reporting and transparency in supply chains, including advice pertaining to policies, training, audits, remediation, and stakeholder engagement.

The guide helps businesses understand key concepts, legal definitions and their responsibility to tackle modern slavery. It provides examples to assist companies in applying ETI Base Code clauses on the prohibition of forced labor.

Compliance guide released by the California Attorney General’s office to help companies comply with the requirements of the Transparency in Supply Chain Act.

A report that provides perspective on how to ensure workers deep in the supply chain can be protected. The guide provides an understanding of what effective worker empowerment looks like.

KTC's cross-sector report that highlights findings within three sectors, and identified lessons and recommendations that can benefit companies across all sectors, with a specific focus on worker voice and remedy.

his guide lays out the business case for buying responsibly, guidance for senior managers, guidance for buyers. It focuses primarily on manufacturing supply chains.

This resource provides recordings of two webinars focused on good practices in grievance mechanisms for business and human rights. They feature speakers from leading mining and energy companies.

In 2018, KnowTheChain benchmarked 119 companies in three high-risk sectors on their efforts to address forced labor in their supply chains. In this new report, we identify areas across sectors where progress has been made, as well as gaps where corporate practice continues to fall short.

This set of tools provides practical guidance and information to contractors on addressing risks of human trafficking in US federal procurement supply chains.

This paper examines these shifting norms, emerging regulations, and greater interest from civil society on traceability and transparency, and explores how they relate to an emerging global consensus about supply chain responsibilities.

This toolkit provides companies with information and guidance on how to address forced and child labor in supply chains, covering assessments, training, remediation, reporting and other key steps.

This resource provides valuable normative and implementation guidance on addressing labor and human rights for companies and stakeholders linked to palm oil supply chains.

A practical guide that can help companies determine what company functions and departments might have an adverse and unintentional impact on human rights and what they can do about it.

Initiative by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights to improve methods and processes for remedying abuses.

The EICC Self-Assessment tool can be used by member companies to conduct a baseline assessment to help them understand what steps they need to take to improve their policies and working conditions.

This toolkit provides practical tools and guidance for businesses to address risks of forced labor in supply chains linked to unethical recruitment. It covers company policies, auditing, training, and management of recruiters, among other issues.

This tool provides a checklist and practical guidance for social auditors to improve the identification and remediation of cases of forced labor in supply chains.

Civil society guidance to help companies go beyond the legal requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act to implement leading practices which help reduce risks of forced labor.

Guide to help drive companies towards understanding what business practices might need in order to align with a commitment to ethical trade.

The brief focuses on best practices for eradicating forced labor at the supplier level. It explains the indicators of forced labor of the FLA’s code and provides examples of risks and violations reported by the FLA’s on-the-ground assessors.

This toolkit is designed to help companies with agricultural or food supply chains by providing specific guidance on how to address worker vulnerability. It complements ETI’s general Human Rights Due Diligence Framework.

This guide provides practical advice for companies on how and why to develop a policy on human rights, including the key steps involved, components, and paths to implementation.

Three years after the passage of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act, KnowTheChain reviewed how more than 100 global companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are responding to the law.

This resource establishes the business case for ethical recruitment and identifies key steps companies and recruiters can take to promote good practices in their own operations.

This guide is designed as a practical toolkit to help companies integrate practices consistent with human rights into existing management systems.

Five years after SB 657’s signing, KnowTheChain developed an insights brief with key lessons and recommendations, based on a sample set of 500 companies that KnowTheChain identified as impacted by SB 657.

This IOE position paper clarifies what forced labor is, why it is an issue for employers, and provides guidance for employers’ organizations and companies on how to identify and prevent such abuse.

This Verité report is a comprehensive study on the scope and characteristics of forced labor in the Malaysian electronics sector. It documents the realities of forced labor for migrant workers employed within contract manufacturing of electronics.

This course introduces the topic of forced labor and supply chains; data on the number of victims globally; how they can be identified in practice, sectors, and regions at-risk; and what this all means for employers.

This repository of over 5,000 statements from global companies under the UK Modern Slavery Act and California Transparency in Supply Chains Act enables users to search for statements by company, sector, and country, and to access reporting guidance.

White paper offering practical steps companies can take to implement due diligence procedures to ensure that they’re not sourcing conflict minerals.

This section of Verité’s Fair Hiring Toolkit provides practical tools and guidance to strengthen company policies, codes of conduct, and benchmarks to assess compliance.

Methodology and process developed by the EICC to ensure effective on-site compliance verification. The common assessment criteria can help companies share information on suppliers that they have in common.

This online course provides an introduction to human trafficking and supply chains, including at-risk sectors and regions, case studies, and guidance on good practice.

A webinar covering good practices from KTC, the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and the Modern Slavery Act Registry. Speakers from H&M and Intel share their perspective on addressing challenges with forced labor in supply chains.

The US Department of Labor app that guides the development of social compliance systems to address forced & child labor.

This paper examines trends towards greater transparency, such as shifting industry norms, emerging regulations, and greater interest from civil society. It includes a chart explaining the scope, requirements, and enforcement mechanisms of the legal and regulatory transparency frameworks.

This resource is a complement to the KTC apparel and footwear benchmark. The guidance prioritizes areas of engagement that the benchmark found to be particularly weak by documenting and promoting effective practices.

The OECD, in partnership with the UN FAO, developed guidance that can be used by companies to ensure they observe standards of responsible business and that their operations do not contribute to adverse impacts on workers.