Key Topic: Engagement Opportunities with Key Stakeholders
Which stakeholders does your company want to engage with to build or strengthen the labor due diligence system?
Here are some opportunities to engage your company’s employees. Employees can have a role in:
- Code of Conduct: Understanding and implementing the code
- Risk Assessment: Helping integrate risk-related data into the company’s decision-making
- Training: Making sure the company's work follows labor due diligence standards and requirements
- Communication: Communicating about the company's labor due diligence system
- Auditing, Independent Monitoring, and Verification: Supplementing worksite auditing programs on field visits
- Remediation: Sharing ideas for how a company’s work can address root causes of labor abuses
- Public Reporting: Contributing material, including statements on importance of labor due diligence
Here are some opportunities to engage supplier company workers and worker representative organizations. Workers can play a role in:
- Code of Conduct: Being involved in development, bringing credibility + expertise + experience to the process
- Risk Assessment: Monitoring and helping identify risks of labor abuses at worksites, raise risks to management
- Training: Participating fully in worker training and provide feedback
- Communication: Engaging in collective bargaining; communicate with management to report labor rights violations
- Assessments, Independent Monitoring, and Verification: Workers’ organizations may act as independent monitors or verifiers where appropriate; workers may utilize grievance and feedback mechanisms
- Remediation: Being involved in remediation planning and implementation, when appropriate
- Public Reporting: Contributing material, including statements on importance of labor due diligence
Here are some opportunities to engage supplier company managers. They can play a role in:
- Code of Conduct: Being involved in development, bringing credibility + expertise + experience to the process
- Risk Assessment: Providing information for the company’s risk assessment, including information on sex, culture, and community dynamics
- Training: Participating fully in worker training
- Communication: Ongoing communication with affected communities about workplace issues; engaging in collective bargaining and adhering to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work including by supporting freedom of association, freedom from discrimination, efforts to identify and eliminate forced and child labor, and promotion of occupational safety and health (OSH) in the workplace
- Assessments, Independent Monitoring, and Verification: Cooperating fully with assessors, auditors and independent verifiers
- Remediation: Taking an active role; develop corrective action plans (CAPs)
- Public Reporting: Contributing material, including statements on importance of labor due diligence
Here are some opportunities to engage local governments and civil society groups in communities affected by supply chain operations, as well as local, national, or international NGOs that serve and/or have expertise in the needs of affected workers. These groups can contribute to:
- Code of Conduct: Being involved in development, bringing credibility + expertise + experience to the process
- Risk Assessment: Providing information for the company’s risk assessment, including information on sex, culture, and community dynamics
- Training: Providing training on child labor, forced labor, freedom of association, and other labor issues
- Communication: Ongoing communication with affected communities about workplace issues; engage in collective bargaining and adhere to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work including by supporting freedom of association, freedom from discrimination, efforts to identify and eliminate forced and child labor, and promotion of occupational safety and health (OSH) in the workplace
- Auditing, Independent Monitoring, and Verification: Helping carry out audits or independent verification, or support community-based monitoring systems
- Remediation: Providing direct services for victims and advise companies on remediation
- Public Reporting: Providing comments on public reporting to enhance accuracy and credibility