1. Tackling Hidden Labour Exploitation

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3. Session Objective
The objective of the session is to raise awareness and understanding of our responsibilities to prevent, identify and reduce the risk of any forced labour, labour trafficking or other hidden third party labour exploitation

4. Sponsors
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5. Policy
2 Sisters Food Group is committed to developing and adopting a pro-active approach to tackling hidden labour exploitation
Hidden labour exploitation is exploitation of job applicants or workers by third party individuals or gangs, other than the employer or labour provider, including rogue individuals working within these businesses but without the knowledge of management
It includes forced labour and human trafficking for labour exploitation; payment for work finding services and work related exploitation, such as forced use of accommodation. It is understood that it is often well hidden by the perpetrators with victims, if they perceive of themselves, as such, reluctant to come forward
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6. Why?...What’s The Problem? 30 million global victims of slavery
Second only to drugs as the most profitable iiiicriminal industry
Human trafficking is the fastest growing iiiicriminal industry in the world
Up 67% in two years in the UK

7. What Is Worker Exploitation?
Human Trafficking – the movement or recruitment of a person(s) by means of iithreat, force or coercion for the purpose of exploitation
Forced Labour – where a person is made to work against their will, under the fear of iia penalty
Rogue Landlords – the owner of the house where people, iinormally in overcrowded and unsafe properties live. The iioccupants are normally threatened with eviction or other iiforms of intimidation
Work-Finding Fee’s – In the UK, it is unlawful for workers iito have to pay to get a job

8. Indicators Of Forced Labour

9. Indicators Of Forced Labour
If not mentioned, indicators of forced labour could also include…
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 a debt or loan, and is not paid for iiiihis / her work
Withholding of wages
Retention of a passport or other ID
Threat of reporting to the authorities

10. Who Is At Risk And How
Mainly migrant workers, often with limited iiiiEnglish language
May lack knowledge of rights or how to iiiienforce them and accept the situation as iiiibetter than nothing
Kept in control by exploiting individuals or iiiigangs
Controlled by actual or threats of violence / iiiifinancial debt / withholding passports, ID, iiiibank accounts / etc

11. It’s All About The Money
Trafficking remains primarily an organised crime, co-ordinated by gangs who move and exploit numbers of people, often as part of a wider criminal enterprise
It’s a hidden crime and difficult to uncover, as workers may not consider themselves as victims or want to report anything, out of fear. This fear is not just fear of physical violence or abuse, but also the fear of feeling that your dignity has been violated.
Stronger Together is all about working together, if there are any signs of this activity in our workplace

12. Work Allocation
When requesting workers from the agency, production simply request a set number of skilled and trained workers for a specific department, based on discussions with the factory manager and proposed production. The choice of actual workers is down to the agency to provide individual names
By doing this, we are…
Fair
Transparent
Non-discriminatory

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14. What Are We Doing About It?
Distribution of worker leaflets and poster iiiicampaigns
Building awareness by educating Operatives, iiiiSupervisors and Management
Implementing preventative and highlighting iiiimeasures
Working together with trade unions and iiiiemployee representatives
Encouraging communication to report iiiiexploitation

15. Your Responsibility
Your responsibility is to report anything regarding…
Forced labour
Human trafficking
Rogue landlords
Work finding fees
If you have concerns that this is happening in your department, it is best to report this to a trusted Supervisor and / or Manager, or even leave an anonymous note for the HR department

16. Key Contacts Internal key contacts include… HR
Whistle Blower Hotline (see poster for phone number)
Supervisor and / or Manager
External key contacts include…
The police (999) if you are in any immediate danger
Non-emergency police (101)
For personal help and support for victims of human trafficking, The Salvation Army iiiiare available on or Migrant Help on
Report it to the Gangmasters Licensing Authority on (confidential)

17. Policy

18. Next Steps
The next step following this briefing, is to cascade this information down to your team(s). To help do this, we have produced a Toolbox Talk which will take approx 15 minutes to complete (this document requires a signature on the Toolbox Talk register (pictured below) which will be filed in the training records)
This will be repeated every 6 months in order to show our commitment to protecting the staff, department, site and the company
This briefing, along with the sign-off must be completed and recorded in the training records by the end of March

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