Supply Chain leaders today carry the responsibility of ensuring that trade partners in their value chain are not employing slavery, bonded labor and child labor in delivering their services.
Collecting disclosures from key suppliers on the working conditions they maintain through Self Assessment Questionnaires or SAQs as they’re called, are an essential piece of compliance and documentation in any modern supply chain.
An effective Modern Slavery Assessment helps you understand the full scope of labor practices within your supply chain, so you can drive improvements with suppliers that don’t meet your labor standards.
Instead of just meeting your reporting requirement, you’ll access valuable supplier data, engage with suppliers, and drive meaningful progress toward the elimination of modern slavery and human rights abuses in your supply chain.
Here are 10 questions that our customers include in their supplier assessments on SignalX.
10 Questions for Suppliers on Slavery & Child Labor Risks
- Does your organisation have policies and processes to identify, investigate and remedy the risk and any instances of modern slavery and child labor within your organisation? Please describe.
- Do you provide training to your employees on child labor risk?
- Does your organization conduct due diligence on your suppliers on their working conditions?
- Does your organisation have a policy or process that prohibits modern slavery including all forms of forced labour, bonded labour and human trafficking in its operations and in those of its suppliers?
- Are any original identity related documents of workers (e.g. passports, birth certificates, national identity cards) retained?
- Are workers required to lodge any ‘security deposits’ (this could include financial or personal property) or pay any recruitment fees?
- Are all workers provided with a written contract in a language they understand, where terms of employment including wage rates and hours of work are clear?
- Where accommodation is provided to workers (for example, dormitories, hostels or other forms of shared accommodation), are regular checks conducted to ensure that the living conditions are adequate and meet legal requirements (for example, fire safety, space, temperature, lighting, sanitary facilities, privacy, ventilation)?
- Where accommodation is provided, are workers free to leave at will?
- Do workers have mechanisms to anonymously raise concerns to the management related to labor conditions or workplace grievances and access appropriate remedy?
