• Stronger Together is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to reduce modern slavery. It provides guidance, training and resources to organisations, employers, labour providers, workers and their representatives. This free collection of resources includes pragmatic guidance and toolkits, and resources for the workplace including multilingual posters, leaflets and template policies. This template is to be modified as required and for inclusion with a wider Tackling Modern Slavery in Business and Supply Chain or Business Human Rights Policy.
    Credit: Stronger Together
  • This is a briefing produced by the think tank IHRB on tackling the exploitative recruiter practice of charging recruitment fees. It outlines the harms of recruitment fees for workers and highlights how businesses can support migrant workers through legal compliance and transparency.
    Credit: Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
  • The IOM is a UN organisation providing advice and services to governments and migrants. This report focuses on the migrant welfare assistance currently offered to members of the Colombo Process group in countries of destination. It reviews provisions currently in place to prevent abusive recruitment practices and includes a proposed framework for measuring the effectiveness of recruitment monitoring.
    Credit: International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
  • The ILO is a UN organisation responsible for setting and monitoring international labour standards. This ILO paper includes an introduction and background to the context of labour recruitment in a period of increased global mobility, and details existing international and national labour standards to regulate recruitment of workers. It includes examples from the UK.
    Credit: International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • Stronger Together is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to reduce modern slavery. It provides guidance, training and resources to organisations, employers, labour providers, workers and their representatives. This free collection of resources includes pragmatic guidance and toolkits, and resources for the workplace including multilingual posters, leaflets and template policies. This template is to be modified as required and for inclusion with a wider Tackling Modern Slavery in Business and Supply Chain or Business Human Rights Policy.
    Credit: Stronger Together
  • The website provides information about key demographic, economic, labor force, and socio-political conditions. In addition to a narrative report on the country’s trafficking situation, the graphics present information on factors like corruption, poverty, unemployment, migration rates, civil liberties, union rights, etc. that provide important (though not absolutely determinative) insights into the conditions and structures of a society that are associated with risk of trafficking, as well as other forms of labor exploitation.
    Credit: The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Verité, Made in a Free World & the Aspen Institute
  • Stronger Together is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to reduce modern slavery. It provides guidance, training and resources to organisations, employers, labour providers, workers and their representatives. This free collection of resources includes pragmatic guidance and toolkits, and resources for the workplace including multilingual posters, leaflets and template policies. This template is to be modified as required and for inclusion with a wider Tackling Modern Slavery in Business and Supply Chain or Business Human Rights Policy.
    Credit: Stronger Together
  • The Walkfree Foundation was established by Andrew Forrest, the Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, after he found labour exploitation within his own supply chains and took a number of steps to prevent modern slavery affecting his business. This comprehensive guide considers corporate policy on modern slavery and provides both guidance and tools to implement it. It includes advice on corporate policy and provides template examples of a number of tools. Credit: Walkfree Foundation & Verite
  • Stronger Together is a multi-stakeholder initiative which aims to reduce modern slavery. It provides guidance, training and resources to organisations, employers, labour providers, workers and their representatives. This free collection of resources includes pragmatic guidance and toolkits, and resources for the workplace including multilingual posters, leaflets and template policies. This template is to be modified as required and for inclusion with a wider Tackling Modern Slavery in Business and Supply Chain or Business Human Rights Policy.
    Credit: Stronger Together
  • This report provides a comprehensive guide to an effective response to human trafficking for labour exploitation in the UK. It identifies the picture of risk to individuals of exploitation in the UK labour market, then presents solutions to such exploitation through: labour inspection and enforcement; gateways to advice and remedy; and corporate accountability.
    Credit: Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX)
  • The Walk Free Foundation was established by Andrew Forrest, the Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, after he found labour exploitation within his own supply chains and took a number of steps to prevent modern slavery affecting his business. This comprehensive guide considers corporate policy on modern slavery and provides both guidance and tools to implement it. It includes advice on corporate policy and provides template examples of a number of tools.
    Credit: Walk Free Foundation & Verite
  • The Staff Wanted Initiative is a collaborative effort from Anti-Slavery International, the UK's only charity dedicated solely to ending modern slavery, and the IHRB, a leading international think tank on business and human rights. The Initiative works to raise awareness and end exploitation of workers in UK hotels. The SEE formula is a three-fold approach to protecting business from labour rights violations - "Scrutinise, Engage, Ensure". It emphasises the need to monitor relationships between and with employees, to communicate informally and formally with workforce, and to provide staff with clear operational procedures when dealing with agency workers.
    Credit: Staff Wanted Initiative
  • The Walkfree Foundation was established by Andrew Forrest, the Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, after he found labour exploitation within his own supply chains and took a number of steps to prevent modern slavery affecting his business. This comprehensive guide considers corporate policy on modern slavery and provides both guidance and tools to implement it. It includes advice on corporate policy and provides template examples of a number of tools. Credit: Walkfree Foundation & Verite
  • The Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment calls for the implementation of the Employer Pays Principle which requires companies to commit to bearing the costs of recruitment. This short guide breaks down six steps companies should take to meet the commitment in practice.
    Credit: Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment
  • This guide provides tailored advice for all businesses in Scotland in relation to human trafficking, exploitation and every business’s legal and ethical duty. Part one is relevant to all businesses; part two contains advice for businesses with an annual turnover of £36 million or more; part three contains advice for businesses with an annual turnover below £36 million.
    Credit: Scottish Government
  • The GLAA (formerly GLA) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom regulating the supply of workers to the agricultural, horticultural and shellfish industries, and any associated processing and packaging industries. It has been granted police-style powers to investigate labour abuse and exploitation across all aspects of the UK labour market. Specific public authorities now have a duty to notify the Secretary of State of any person in England and Wales suspected of being a victim of human trafficking. This ten minute video is an introduction to the indicators that can lead to an arrest for human trafficking. It is a re-creation of a call to the GLAA from a worker and points out the indicators as they emerge during the conversation. Credit: Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority  
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