Eliminating Forced and Child Labour at the workplace

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Eliminating Forced and Child Labour at the
workplace
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Forced Labour

• What?
• Where?
• Why?

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• Exercise 1
• Forced labour or freely chosen?

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The basic elements to recognize forced labour

• Forced or compulsory labour is work
• performed under threat of a penalty
• undertaken involuntarily

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Impacts and challenges

• Reputation and brand image
• Lawsuits and criminal prosecution
• Risk of trade restrictions
• Increased attention from investors
• Adverse effects on the labour market

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What can be done to combatforced labour at the
workplace?

• Make sure that the terms of contracts are clear
• If forced labour cases are found, take measures
  to stop them
• Prohibit that workers lodge financial deposits
  with the company
• Be careful when hiring prisoners
• Exercise influence on the supply chain

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Eliminating Child Labour at the workplace
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Child labour

• What?
• Where?
• Why?

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Child Labour per sector
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Minimum age Convention (no. 138)
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The worst forms of child labour

• All forms of slavery
• Prostitution or pornographic purposes
• Illicit activities, in particular the production
  and trafficking of drugs
• Work which is likely to harm the health, safety
  or morals of the child

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Impacts and challenges
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• Exercise 2
• What would you have done?

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What can be done to combat child labour at the
workplace?

• Adhere to minimum age provisions
• Use adequate and reliable mechanisms for age
  verification
• If child labour is found, take measures to remove
  it
• Exercise influence on the supply chain
• Develop and implement mechanisms to detect child
  labour
• Wages policies

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Ongoing initiatives to combat forced and child
labour

• International Framework Agreements
• Multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Companies policies and codes
• Social auditing, labelling and certification

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Toolbox for forced and child labour

• Elements to identify forced labour
• Child health risk table
• Self-assessment questionnaire
• Useful links