Over the last month the uk home office has sent letters to more than 17 000 companies that it believes are required to publish an annual statement under the uk modern slavery act.
Home office letter modern slavery. Apparently it is going to publish a name and shame list of non compliant organisations after an audit at the end of march 2019. A home office spokesperson said. Msa 2015 places a transparency responsibility on certain businesses to issue a public statement every year showing what steps it has taken to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is. Over the last month the uk home office has sent letters to more than 17 000 companies that it believes are required to publish an annual statement under the uk modern slavery act.
The home office is writing directly to chief executives of 17 000 businesses telling them to open up about modern slavery in their supply chains or risk being named as in breach of the law. Perhaps you did too. Following this audit the home office will publish a list of companies who have failed to update or publish a modern slavery statement and are therefore non compliant under the act. We will send.
The home office has recently sent out letters reminding organisations of their obligations to publish statements under the modern slavery act 2015 msa. The letters request that companies register on the modern slavery contact database by november 18 publish up to date modern slavery statements by march 31 2019. The uk home office has recently issued letters to organisations which it believes are legally required to publish slavery and human trafficking statements under the modern slavery act 2015 msa 2015. If you register your details on the contacts database you will receive email updates every 6 weeks from the home office to help you develop and improve your modern slavery statement.
We got a letter from the home office last month reminding us no doubt in common with many others of our obligations under the modern slavery act 2015.