Industry Alliance

Members

Migration-focused Mission

Migration-focused Activities

Online Resources

Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment

2016

(managed by the IHRB)

HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, GE, IKEA, MARS, M&S, Nestlé, Nike, PepsiCo, Target, Tesco, The Coca Cola Company, Unilever, Vinci, Walmart

To implement the Employer Pays Principle across industries

› Regional workshops, sector specific trainings, Dilemma Fora, Global Annual Forum

› Direct collaboration with IOM, Verité, ICCR, and influential regional NGOs

› Infographics on Theory of Change, the Increasing Debt Burden, Six Steps to Responsible Recruitment, the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity

› Research reports, legislation overviews, company guidelines

Ethical Trading Initiative

1998

90+ members, including Aldi, ASDA, asos, Bonmarché, Burberry, C&A, Clarks, GAP, H&M, Hunter, Li&Fund, J Sainsbury, Marshalls, New Look, orsay, PRIMARK, The Body Shop, WHSmith, and others

“[T]o respect workers’ voices, to improve their conditions – and where abuse occurs to provide an effective remedy”

› Collective lobbying for laws on protecting migrant workers’ rights (e.g., UK Modern Slavery act)

› Resolving violations in supply chain

› Country-specific programs

› Close collaboration with trade unions and NGOs

› Blog and newsletter

› Company guiding brochures, including relevant ILO conventions

› Links to campaigning organizations, consulting and auditing companies, think tanks, trade unions, and more

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The Consumer Goods Forum

2009

400+ members,

including Alibaba, Barilla, Carrefour, Campbells, Colgate, Danone, Heineken, Henkel, Jerónimo Martins, Kellog’s, Kroger, Lawson, L’Oreal, M&S, MARS, MGB, MIGROS, Mondelēz, Nestlé, P&G, Rewe, S Group, Target, Tesco, The Coca Cola Company, Unilever, Walmart, and others

“[to]. . . harness the power of collective action as an industry group, to identify and address issues and geographies of shared concern, enhancing the efficiency of any individual company initiatives”

› Forced Labor Initiative (FLI)

› Responsible recruitment workshops

› Roundtables with national governments

› Calls for collective action on preventing forced labor

› Executive reports, videos, podcasts and infographics

› Business Actions Against Forced Labor booklet

› Infographics

› Social Sustainability One-Pager

Responsible Business Alliance

2004, renamed in 2017

150+ members,

including Acer, Amazon.com, Apple, Applied Materials, BMW Group, Bose, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Facebook, Flex, Fujitsu, HP, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, NETGEAR, Oracle America, Philips, Qualcomm, Samsung, Tesla, Toshiba, and others

“. . . to drive the transformation of recruitment markets, reduce the risk of forced labor and provide remedy in global supply chains at all stages of recruitment and employment”

› Supplemental Validated Audit Process (SVAP) on Forced Labor

› Responsible Labor Initiative (RLI)

› Trafficked & Forced Labor issue management

› Online trainings

› Executive statements

› Podcast on ethical recruitment and RLI

› Assessment brochures

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

early initiative by WWF, launched in 2004

4000+ members,

including AAK, MIGROS, Nestlé, MARS, P&G, Unilever, Walmart; numerous certified growers and smallholders

“[to address]. . . excessive working hours, occupational health and safety hazards, and more seriously, child labour, forced labour, and the trafficking of migrant workers”

› Labor Rights Task Force (LTF)

› Certifications for growers and distributors

› Investigation of complaints

› Smallholder support

› Raw data on member companies

› Annual Communication of Progress reports

› Regularly updated news on working conditions of palm-oil migrant workers

› Best practices samples, minutes from general assembly and complaints meetings, Human Rights Working Group summaries

Seafood Task Force

2014, renamed in 2016

40+ members,

including Aldi, Bumble Bee Seafoods, CFF, Charoen Pokphand Foods, Costco, Grobest, Kingfisher, Labeyrie, Mazzeta, MRG, Nestlé Purina, Rubicon, Seafresh Group, Sodexo, Sysco, Target, Thai Union, TRF, The Fishin’ Company, Walmart, XianNing Seafood, and others

To tackle social issues in Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing (IUU), especially, human trafficking & forced labor in off-shore fishing vessels in international waters

› Oversight, supervision, surveillance, and inspection in the supply chain (current focus area – Thailand; plans for global scalability)

› Regular workshops, and trainings

› Collective lobbying for new legislations

› Progress reports, vessel auditing standards