Businesses of all types and sizes should develop a deeper understanding of their organisation and supply chains to identify risks of modern slavery.
The Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (the "Act") requires reporting entities (and those that report voluntarily) to lodge a ’modern slavery statement’ prompting the identification of modern slavery risks in their organisation and supply chains.
Do you need to submit a modern slavery statement?
If so, yes you MUST lodge a modern slavery statement.
If not, while you are not required to formulate and lodge a modern slavery statement for a reporting period, it is likely your organisation is in the supply chains of organisations that are required to lodge. Due to the Act requiring reporting entities to investigate their organisation and supply chains, the compliance obligations of reporting entities will be pushed down supply chains prompting non-reporting organisations to incorporate similar compliance measures.
We have developed a Modern Slavery Compliance Portal to assist reporting entities to comply with the Act by streamlining the identification of modern slavery risks in their organisation and supply chains. In addition, the Modern Slavery Compliance Portal was developed to deliberately integrate compliance with certain mandatory reporting criteria required in modern slavery statements including: