White Papers
Compliance is Not Enough: Best Practices in Responding to the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act
The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act has focused company attention on the presence of human trafficking and modern-day slavery in supply chains. Yet standard social compliance responses will not be adequate to reduce company risks - or worker vulnerability - to these egregious problems. In this White Paper, Verité outlines the content of the Act, the sources of trafficking and forced labor risk, and what is necessary in order to address these problems adequately in supply chain production.
For Workers' Benefit: Solving Overtime Problems in Chinese Factories
If your brand sources from Chinese factories, chronic, illegal overtime may be imposed on employees without your knowledge. While the Chinese government has developed a regulatory system to provide protections, it is often misused to enable the very overtime it was designed to alleviate. Our white paper provides solutions. Also available in Chinese. 阅读本文的中文版本。
The Electronics Sector in Malaysia: A Case Study in Migrant Workers' Risk of Forced Labor
Conditions of forced labor exist in Malaysia's electronics industry. For the past ten years, Verité has seen and documented a distressing trend - migrant workers in Malaysia electronics factories recounting disturbingly similar stories of recruitment into the sector under conditions of deception, debt bondage, harrassment and abuse, and other situations that can lead to forced labor. Our new White Paper demonstrates how to eliminate the risks.