Over the past several months, in Issara’s ongoing engagement with brands and retailers, business associations, and environmental sustainability colleagues, Issara has been asked many times what worker voice is. It is widely observed at this point that there are more and more programs and technologies emerging that refer to themselves as “worker voice,” but then also a sneaking suspicion that not all are. So how to understand what worker voice is, why it is important for both workers and business, and what harm can be done by positioning a program as worker voice when it really is not?
The data in this report represents signals and cases from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019 and is accurate as of July 30, 2020. Cases of trafficking may be ongoing or new information may revealed to the National Hotline over time. Consequen...Read More
The contents of this document provide a practical assessment of risk within the wider palm oil industry structure and the urgent need for better governance, management and administration to prevent these undesirable activities from continuing and gi...Read More
As a result of the progressive legalization of international business and human rights “soft law” standards, the “S” of “ESG” is no longer an optional criterion for investors to include in their decision-making process, but it is becom...Read More
Trafficking in human beings is defined as a situation whereby a person’s predicament is used to trap them in an exploitative situation. This can take various forms and occurs in different areas: • Exploitative employment relationships ...Read More
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