Business has a key role in addressing modern slavery in the supply chains of our goods and services, and ensuring Australia’s supply chains are not tainted with modern slavery.
Resources for business
These resources can help strengthen business responses to modern slavery. Further resources about reporting under the Modern Slavery Act are available on the Modern Slavery Register.
This storyboard explains the Government’s new laws to protect migrant workers from exploitation.
This publication helps small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Australia meet their responsibility to respect the right of all workers within their operations and supply chains to be free from modern slavery.
This report supports Australian businesses to understand, establish and operate effective grievance mechanisms that can address modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.
This toolkit provides guidance for business on how to strengthen responses under the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) and conduct human rights due diligence. The toolkit focuses on engagement with stakeholders and suppliers.
Developed in collaboration with the Human Rights Resource and Energy Collaborative (HRREC), this Framework provides guidance and practical steps to support business to respond to and remedy instances of modern slavery.
This guide provides general information to business on identifying and addressing modern slavery risks.
The purpose of this publication is to increase awareness of relevant modern slavery risk factors present on board ships carrying Australian-owned cargo, and to provide businesses with an overview of the standards in place to support them to respect seafarers’ rights.
The Commonwealth Supplier Code of Conduct outlines the Commonwealth’s minimum expectations of suppliers and their subcontractors while under contract with the Commonwealth, including modern slavery considerations.
The Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery National Minimum Dataset is a national data collection on suspected victim‑survivors and perpetrators of modern slavery in Australia. This report describes the findings of the pilot data collection, conducted from 1 July to 31 December 2022.
This is the final report on The Salvation Army’s delivery of the Experience Engagement Program (LEEP) in 2023.
This foundational guidance document is intended to assist organisations seeking to engage and empower people with lived experience expertise.
The Australian Red Cross created this toolkit to assist its smaller community partners to understand and address modern slavery.
The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are the global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights involving business activity.
This guidance supports enterprises to implement the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by providing plain language explanations of its due diligence recommendations and associated provisions.
This fact sheet provides information about the role of the Australian National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the complaints process.
This detailed guidance material for reporting entities provides step-by-step instructions on how to comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) and advice about good practice.
This guide provides practical advice to support business to design and implement grievance mechanisms, to hear and address complaints about modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.