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How Acquis Compliance can support your Ethical Sourcing initiative?

At Acquis we believe in sourcing timely, accurate information on the supplier code of conduct through supplier audits on Child Labour, Anti Human Trafficking, Supplier Diversity, workplace safety, and other ethical sourcing practices to curb unethical sourcing. Our ethical sourcing regulation services include:

  • U.K. Modern Slavery Act (MSA)
  • The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
  • The Slavery & Trafficking Risk Template (STRT)
  • Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking provisions of the U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
  • Anti-boycott Compliance
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
  • Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT)
  • Anti-Trafficking Trade Act
  • California Transparency in Supply Chains Act
  • The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
  • Council Directive 94/33/EC
  • Supplier Code of Conduct
  • Supplier Diversity

Frequently asked questions

What is Ethical Sourcing?

Ethical sourcing includes regulations on prevention of modern slavery or unethical, forced labour, anywhere across the globe. The modern slavery regulation was enforced as a part of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime by the U.N Generally Assembly’s protocol to prevent suppress and punish trafficking persons, especially women and children.

What is the Slavery & Trafficking Risk Template (STRT)?

The Slavery and Trafficking Risk Template (STRT) is a free, open-source data collection template used to collect trafficking and slavery related data for corporate due diligence programs. It is maintained by a Development Committee under the Social Responsibility Alliance (SRA).

SRA is an initiative dedicated to providing companies with the open-source data collection tools they need to build socially responsible supply chains. The Development Committee creates, updates and maintains versions of the STRT to ensure it meets the data collection needs of companies and supply chains across industry.

What is the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (SCDDA)?

The SCDDA is a piece of legislation enacted in 2017 to address human rights violations in global supply chains. It requires companies to take steps to identify and prevent such violations, particularly in relation to their own operations and those of their suppliers.

Starting January 2023, all companies in Germany with over 3,000 employees with a head office, administrative seats, or statutory seats in Germany will be required to comply with the act. Employees are considered as any worker with an employment contract longer than 6 months. From 2024, the lower limit for the number of employees will be reduced to 1,000. Businesses with a smaller workforce may also be affected if they are part of a larger company's supply chain.

What is the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)?

The UFLPA is a piece of legislation passed in the United States to address the issue of forced labor among the Uyghur population in China. It aims to prohibit the import of goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and to hold companies accountable for their supply chains.

The act was signed into law by President Biden on December 23, 2021. It came into effect on June 21, 2022 and prohibits the import of goods made with forced labor in the XUAR, requiring companies to certify that their products do not contain materials produced by forced labor

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