1. GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment On Social Practice
GRASP

2. GLOBAL.G.A.P
Global.G.A.P. is an internationally accepted quality standard for primary industries.
Primary industries need to comply with several standards, varying from all farms to fruit and vegetables.
In New Zealand the Global.G.A.P. standard provides both commercial assurances and regulatory compliance.
The standard has several ‘add-ons’, e.g. the Global.G.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practices (GRASP).
GlobalGAP is audited annually by a ‘certifying body’ (Global.G.A.P. call these CBs, in the New Zealand Horticulture sectors these are the Independent Verification Agencies or IVAs).

3. GRASP
GAP
World
35220
172532
New Zealand
120
1246

4. GRASP covers international labour laws and local (NZ) employment law.

5. Social issues in agriculture are receiving increasing attention

6. SOCIAL PRACTICE IN BUSINESS

7. Ethical Trade
£166bn turnover.

8. GRASP NATIONAL INTERPRETATION GUIDELINES
Labour laws differ from country to country (e.g. minimum wage, age of legal employment, working hours etc.).
GRASP National Interpretation Guidelines (NIG’s) are developed for each country to describe local labour laws.
Growers are audited against the NZ NIG’s
Where it is stricter, local legislation overrides GRASP (& vice versa).

9. SCOPE
GRASP covers everyone on the farm: permanent employees, seasonal workers, piece-rate workers and day labourers.
Labour contractors are captured into GRASP.
Growers that use labour contractors are required to provide the evidence during an audit.

10. SCOPE Key topics CP no. Control Point and Compliance Criteria
Employees´ representation 1
Employees´ Representative 2
Complaint Procedure
Legal rights 3
Self-Declaration on Good Social Practices 4
Access to National Labour Regulations
Written records 5
Working Contracts 6
Payslips 7
Wages
Children´s rights 8
Non-Employment of Minors 9
Access to Compulsory School Education
Working time 10
Time Recording System 11
Working Hours and Breaks
Producer Groups
QMS
Integration into QMS
Recommendations R1
Additional Social Benefits

11. GRASP ASSESSMENT METHODS
Record Verification
Site Inspection
Question to the Responsible Person for the Implementation of GRASP
Question to the Company Manager
Questions to the Employees‘ Representative
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12. Changing Times
The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 – enacted 2016 – requires transparency in supplychains and assurance systems that drill down into the social practices of suppliers. These companies must report annually alongside their financial reports.
Possibly in response to the new laws Sainsbury the worlds biggest retailer of Fairtrade branded products has dumped the standard and will be replacing it with in house certification and setting its own standards.
Tesco has also just announced that it will drop Fair Trade.

13. Tackling Hidden Worker Exploitation
Working Together to Tackle Worker Exploitation

14. Tackling Hidden Worker Exploitation
Leading organisations and industry bodies within UK food production, retail and horticulture have joined forces under an initiative entitled “Stronger Together” to tackle modern day slavery and other hidden migrant worker exploitation.

15. Tackling Hidden Worker Exploitation
OBJECTIVE
To reduce forced labour, labour trafficking and other hidden third party labour exploitation
The objective of “Stronger Together” is to reduce forced labour, labour trafficking and other hidden third party labour exploitation

16. Why?…What’s the problem?
Tackling Hidden Worker Exploitation
Why?…What’s the problem?
45 million global victims of slavery – GSI
Second most profitable criminal industry to drugs
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world
Up to 13,000 held in slavery in the UK

17. What Worker Exploitation?
Tackling Hidden Worker Exploitation
What Worker Exploitation?
Human Trafficking - the movement or recruitment of persons by means of threat, force or coercion for the purpose exploitation
Forced Labour – where a person is made to work against their will under the fear of a penalty
Rogue landlords – who house people in overcrowded and unsafe property often with threats of eviction or other intimidation
Work-Finding Fees – In the UK it is unlawful for workers to be required to pay to get a job.

18. Indicators of Forced Labour
Tackling Hidden Worker Exploitation
Indicators of Forced Labour
Threats of or actual physical or sexual violence;
Restriction of movement and confinement to the workplace or to a limited area;
Debt Bondage - where a worker works to pay off debt or loan, and is not paid for his or her services;
Withholding of wages - refusing to pay the worker at all or excessive wage reductions;
Retention of passports and identity documents;
Threat of reporting to the authorities.