COMPANIES MUST UNDERTAKE DUE DILIGENCE TO AVOID COMPLICITY IN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES – CRIMINAL CHARGES MAY BE LEVIED ON SLACKERS, CONFERENCE TOLD
November 1st, 2019
Clothing and textile executives attending a New York conference have been told they need to take special care on assessing their supply chains, to ensure they are not tainted with human rights abuses, because not only may the reputational risks be severe – criminal liability may follow. The head of corporate social responsibility at BSI, the British standards organisation, Ryan Lynch, told the 31st annual Apparel Importers Trade & Transportation Conference on November 7 that the most obvious example at present are the claims, highlighted in an ...
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