Tackling Modern Slavery in Businesses for apparel and general merchandise

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.
• Face-to-face workshops: 9:30am - 15:30

Costs:

Online sessions

• £155 (+VAT) per delegate: for ALP members and suppliers/service providers to project sponsors
• £215 (+ VAT) per delegate: all other places

Face-to-face training

• £175 (+VAT) per delegate: for ALP members and suppliers/service providers to project sponsors
• £235 (+ VAT) per delegate: all other places

Free places There are free places available for for ALP members*, GLAA licence holders and a suppliers** to sponsors of the Consumer Goods programme. Please click here to submit your request to book this workshop. Stronger Together will verify your eligibility and provide further booking instructions.

*Free place only valid if ALP Membership is in place at workshop date.

**Own-label UK and ROI suppliers (at any tier) and UK and ROI not-for-resale suppliers/service providers (at tier one) of Programme Sponsors / Direct UK and ROI labour providers/recruiters or those used by their eligible suppliers (i.e. those described in above point) of Programme Sponsors