Corporate and Social Responsibility

The U.K. Modern Slavery Act of 2015 requires companies falling under its jurisdictional hook to honestly and completely disclose their efforts to eradicate trafficked, slave, indentured, coerced and child (collectively “forced”) labor from their supply chains. This, like many things in the compliance world, is easier said than done.  As discussed in this Client Update,

The newly released Federal Acquisition Regulation provisions — arising out of President Obama’s 2012 Executive Order 13627 — mandate that all federal contractors take certain actions related to combating human trafficking and slavery in their supply chains.

For more information on this critical topic, click here to read our recent client alert.

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