Join an interactive workshop to understand modern slavery and labour exploitation risks within the UK Garment and General Merchandise sectors. Developed and delivered by experienced practitioners this practical training will ensure you are informed and equipped to address forced labour, implement good practice and minimise risks.
Cases of labour exploitation are escalating within UK businesses and their supply chains. Forced labour regularly goes undetected as criminal gangs infiltrate legitimate business exploiting and profiting from vulnerable workers.
No business is free from risks, and the garment and general merchandise sector face hidden labour exploitation challenges including:
- Worker pay below legal minimums, withholding of pay, excessive working hours
- Unsafe and unhygienic working conditions
- Seasonal demands resulting in last minute orders, placing pressure through supply chains
- Reliance on short-term, temporary and irregular workers provided through labour providers
- Workers having a lack of awareness of their rights or channels to raise issues
By the end of the workshop you will:
- Understand what modern slavery, forced labour and hidden labour exploitation is
- Learn about how exploitation impacts and infiltrates UK businesses
- Reflect and learn from real life modern slavery cases
- Be equipped with the business case to become a committed organisation against modern slavery
- Understand how to respond to your business’s exploitation risks
- Learn the signs that someone may be being exploited and how to respond
- Worked through practical case studies
- Be confident in your next steps to deter, detect and deal with it in your business and have the tools and resources you need to implement what you’ve learnt.
This workshop is ideal for:
- Those responsible for tackling modern slavery from policy to implementation including HR, CSR, technical and operational managers
- Those working in the general merchandise and apparel sector
- Worker representatives, auditors and others with a responsibility in the area of modern slavery
We also run a sector neutral ‘Tackling Modern Slavery in UK Businesses’ course or if you work in the construction industry or warehousing sector, we recommend our sector specific workshop ‘Tackling Modern Slavery in the Construction Sector’ or ‘Tackling Labour Exploitation in UK Warehousing’
How sessions run:
Online sessions: 4 1/2-hour live interactive training split into two halves with a lunch break in between. 09:30 – 15:00. This is an interactive training including the opportunity to ask our expert trainers questions.
Workshop Cost
For project sponsor own label suppliers/GNFR suppliers/service providers, ALP members, Charities, NGOs - £155 (+VAT) per delegate
Non project sponsor suppliers, non ALP member labour providers - £215 (+VAT) per delegate
There is one free delegate place per organisation* on open workshops for ALP members, GLAA licence holders and UK based suppliers of own label product or goods and services not for resale to sponsors of the Consumer Goods programme. Free places for those who are eligible renew every 3 years.
All ticket bookings are non-refundable for cancellations less than seven days before the workshop.
FAQs
Is my registration/ticket transferable? Please contact us if you would like to request for your ticket to be transferred to another person or event. Conditions apply.
I have a question or am unsure as to whether I qualify for a free ticket? Please contact us on events@stronger2gether.org
