![]() Naming and shaming organisations for failing to comply with legislation is fine but let’s not delude ourselves into believing it actually achieves the outcome we require. Not exactly commensurate with the efforts of William Wilberforce, is it? Let’s also remind ourselves what it is they haven’t done written a statement and posted it on a website. The same could be said for the others named in the article. The bookmakers Paddy Power Betfair, for example, may have very large revenue but is unlikely to be reliant on any significant value or volume of imported goods and services, maybe a bunch of IT equipment but little else. With that goal in mind, it would make sense to address the supply chains of those companies with the largest risk of discovering slavery in their supply chain, so the largest by revenue might be one crude measure but it may be more effective to target those most reliant on imported goods and service, surely? Let’s work back from the outcome we wish to achieve something like eliminate slavery from the supply chain of goods and services entering the country. It feels like another outing for our old friend Pareto. Under the MSA firms with a turnover of £36m or more must produce slavery statements approved by the board, signed by a director and published on a website with a link from the homepage. ![]() Hargreaves Lansdown, Paddy Power Betfair, Pearson and Worldpay rated poorly. The BHRCC research, from October 2017, commended Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Unilever, British American Tobacco, Tesco and Vodafone for their work against modern slavery. So which are the companies who so callously flaunt the requirements of the Modern Slavery Act and what are those requirements? It continued elsewhere in the world, however, a fact which ought to kill any conversation about cultural equality dead. It’s only recently made bad business logic since the Judeo-Christian culture decided it was immoral and put severe sanctions in place to prevent it. Slavery has been the primary route to wealth for most of human history. ![]() Well, that’s not strictly true, is it? The Romans built an entire empire off the back of slaves and it’s doubtful the Southern plantation owners would have sold as much cotton if the price had included market rate wages as input costs. “ Taking action on modern slavery and human trafficking is not just a moral obligation – it is in fact good business sense: forced labour in company operations or supply chains has potential to disrupt business, weaken investor confidence, incur litigation costs and cause significant brand damage.” “Therefore, I have written to 25 companies identified in the BHRCC research as non-compliant, and which had still not corrected their omissions by December 2017, to encourage improved efforts in the coming year.”Ī quarter of the FTSE100 are not taking seriously the risk of slavery in their supply chain? That’s pretty dire. “ FTSE 100 companies have a major influence in eradicating modern slavery,” said Hyland. Slavery still exists along the supply chain of some of the most reputable businesses.
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