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UK 'Modern Slavery Act' Compliance
In late March of last year, the UK adopted legislation aimed at combatting slavery and human trafficking: the “Modern Slavery Act 2015″ (“the Act”). It includes a specific compliance disclosure legal obligation that has been in force since Oct. 29, 2015. Also in October, the UK government published “Transparency in Supply Chains, A Practical Guide” (“the Guidance”) in order to provide guidance about the compliance requirement.
This legislation affects any business from anywhere (i.e., not just businesses based in the UK) so long as the business meets a UK '36 million turnover threshold (USD $55.281 million) and sells goods or services into the UK.
The UK legislation takes its inspiration from California, which in 2010 adopted the “California Transparency in Supply Chains Act” (“the California Act”). This requires retail and manufacturing businesses with worldwide annual gross receipts over $100 million and annual Californian sales exceeding $500,000, doing a certain amount of their business in California, to disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery from their supply chains.
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