Questions to ask yourself
Information to help businesses think about labour supply chains.
These questions are designed to help businesses think about current practices. For example:
- what labour supply chain risks are the biggest concern for your business and how far do your assurance practices mitigate this
- do you know what risk indicators to look for when risk assessing your chains
- how often do you check if there have been changes to your chain and re-assess risk during contracts
- do you have visibility through your whole supply chain to your workforce
- how do you verify that your suppliers are assuring the chain below and workforce on your behalf
- do your staff have training available to help them identify and report supply chain issues
- do you have appropriate procedures in place to act upon indicators or evidence of fraud and other risks within your labour supply chains
- who is making employment status decisions
- who pays your workforce and how are they being paid
- how is your workforce is protected from exploitation while working for you
- what do you have in place for workers to report any concerns