On anti slavery day city a m reports that the home office has promised to name and shame businesses which fail to abide by modern slavery rules.
Home office name and shame modern slavery. The home office has recently sent out letters reminding organisations of their obligations to publish statements under the modern slavery act 2015 msa. 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. By polly miles and chris cartmell the home office has recently issued letters to approximately 17 000 companies who they have determined are obligated entities under the the uk modern slavery act 2015 the act. The uk government is planning to name and shame suppliers who have failed to comply with the modern slavery act msa.
Civil servants will be calling on 17 000 chief executives to publish annual transparency statements on their supply chains. The home office has been writing directly to chief executives of 17 000 businesses in scope with a general warning that continued non compliance will not be tolerated and urging them to publish their annual statement if reporting for the first time or publish their latest annual statement by 31 march 2019. Plans to name and shame non compliant businesses. 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.
The government is threatening to name and shame companies that fail to set out what they are doing about modern slavery in their supply chains. These threaten to name and shame them for failure to meet legal obligations under the modern slavery act 2015 if they don t comply by 31 st march 2019. Apparently it is going to publish a name and shame list of non compliant organisations after an audit at the end of march 2019. Perhaps you did too.
Home office threatens to name and shame over modern slavery a significant number of clients are telling us about letters they ve received from the home office. The letter suggests various actions organisations need to take in response and indicates that organisations that fail to comply with their legal obligations risk being included in a. The home office set a deadline of 31 march 2019 for companies to get their. In october 2018 the uk home office wrote to chief executives of all businesses who are subject to the msa reiterating their obligation to provide an annual modern slavery and human trafficking statement.
Companies with a turnover of move than 36 million must publish a modern slavery statement.