Modern Slavery - Reforms at home & abroad

It's been a significant year for modern slavery law reform in Australia and overseas.

Globally, modern slavery regulation has emerged and evolved inconsistently – signalling the need for businesses to monitor domestic and international developments, to assess where their modern slavery obligations diverge and align.

Navigating the increasingly complex patchwork of global modern slavery laws should be a priority for businesses that:

• are exposed to multiple reporting regimes across jurisdictions,
• have key customers that are exposed to modern slavery reporting regimes, or 
• have complex and multi-jurisdictional operations and supply chains.

In this update, we summarise recent modern slavery law developments in Australia and overseas, and what changes businesses should be prepared for as we look ahead.