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UK’s new ‘name and shame’ approach to anti-trafficking

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Published on: 01 April 2019

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Table of contents

Home Office’s tender tells the tale—publication of noncompliant companies and injunctions against noncompliant companies are on the enforcement menu
Timing is everything
Who must comply with the UK disclosure requirements?
What is a ‘slavery and human trafficking statement’ anyway?
Who must approve of such a statement?
Where must such a statement be disclosed?
So what are the penalties for noncompliance?
Yikes! I am not sure we are complying—what should we do?

Article summary

Practice Compliance analysis: To the extent there ever was any doubt, companies falling under the UK Modern Slavery Act of 2015’s jurisdiction (and there are, as we shall see, many of them) must get their supply chain disclosures ready for prime-time (and have no time to waste).

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