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- Step 1: Engage Stakeholders and Partners
- Step 2: Assess risks and impacts
- Step 3: Develop code of conduct
- Step 4: Communicate and Train across your supply chain
- Step 5: Monitor compliance
- Step 6: Remediate violations
- Step 7: Independent review
- Step 8: Report performance
ILAB welcomes feedback on the Reducing Child Labor and Forced Labor toolkit. To submit feedback on this section, please e-mail ILAB.
Further Resources
- Bartley, Tim. “Corporate Accountability and the Privatization of Labor Standards: Struggles Over Codes of Conduct in the Apparel Industry,” Research in Political Sociology 14 (2005): 211-244.
- Diller, Janelle. “A social conscience in the global marketplace? Labor dimensions of codes of conduct, social labelling and investor initiatives,” International Labor Review 138, no. 2 (1999): 99-129.
- ISEAL. Code of Good Practice: Setting Social and Environmental Standards v 5.0. Germany, January 3, 2004; available from http://inni.pacinst.org/inni/General/ISEALCodeFinal.pdf.
- Kolk, Ans. “Corporate social responsibility in the coffee sector: The dynamics on MNC responses and code development,” European Management Journal 23, no. 2 (April 2005): 228-236.
- Kolk, Ans, and Rob Van Tulder. “The Effectiveness of Self-regulation: Corporate Codes of Conduct and Child Labor,” European Management Journal 20, no. 3 (June 2002): 260-271.
- U.N. Global Compact. A Guide for Business: How to Develop a Human Rights Policy, 2011; available from http://unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/human_rights/Resources/HR_Policy_Guide.pdf.
- U.N. Global Compact. A Guide for Integrating Human Rights Into Business Management, 2nd ed., 2009; available from http://www.integrating-humanrights.org.
- U.N. Global Compact. Human Rights and Business Learning Tool; available from http://human-rights-and-business-learning-tool.unglobalcompact.org.
- U.N. Global Compact. From Principles to Practice: The Role of SA8000 in Implementing the U.N. Global Compact, 2010; available from http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/labour/tools_guidance_materials/
Principles_to_Practice.pdf. - U.N. Global Compact and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice, 2004; available from http://unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/human_rights/Resources/embedding.pdf.
- U.N. Global Compact and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice II, 2007; available from http://unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/8.1/EHRBPII_Final.pdf.
- U.N. Global Compact and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice III, 2009; available from http://unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/human_rights/Resources/EHRBIII.pdf.
- U.S. Department of Labor. The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problem?. Washington, D.C., 1996; available from http://www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/apparel/main.htm.
- Verité. Fair Hiring Toolkit; available from http://www.verite.org/helpwanted/toolkit.