Modern Slavery Policy

 

This policy applies to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, agents, contractors, and suppliers.

 

Richards Events & Recruitment Services Ltd strictly prohibits the use of modern slavery and human trafficking in our operations. We have and will continue to be committed to implementing systems and controls aimed at ensuring that modern slavery is not taking place anywhere within our organisation. We expect our suppliers to hold their own suppliers to the same high standards.

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Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

 

Modern slavery is a term used to encompass slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour, bonded and child labour, and human trafficking. Human trafficking is where a person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person with a view to that person being exploited. Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights.

 

Commitments

 

We shall be a company that expects everyone working with us or on our behalf to support and uphold the following measures to safeguard against modern slavery:

 

• We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in our organisation.

 

• The prevention, detection, and reporting of modern slavery in any part of our organisation is the responsibility of all those working for us or on our behalf. Workers must not engage in, facilitate, or fail to report any activity that might lead to, or suggest, a breach of this policy.

 

• We are committed to engaging with our stakeholders and suppliers to address the risk of modern slavery in our operations.

 

• We take a risk-based approach to our contracting processes and keep them under review. We assess whether the circumstances warrant the inclusion of specific prohibitions against the use of modern slavery and trafficked labour in our contracts with third parties. Using our risk-based approach, we will also assess the merits of writing to suppliers requiring them to comply with our Code of Conduct, which sets out the minimum standards required to combat modern slavery and trafficking.

 

Consistent with our risk-based approach we may require:

• third parties supplying workers to our organisation to confirm their compliance with our Code of Conduct

• Suppliers engaging workers to obtain that third parties’ agreement to adhere to the Code

• As part of our ongoing risk assessment and due diligence processes we will consider whether circumstances warrant us carrying out audits of suppliers for their compliance with our Code of Conduct.

After due consideration, we have not identified any significant risks of modern slavery, forced labour, or human trafficking. However, we continue to be alert to the potential for problems.

 

 

Reports surrounding these issues are taken extremely seriously by our board of directors, who are committed to ensuring that all investigations are prompt and effective. If our investigations reveal any issues, we  recommit to taking appropriate action, including but not limited to:

• Working with the appropriate organisations to improve standards,

• Removing that organisation from our supplier list,

• Passing details to appropriate law enforcement bodies.

 

If we find that other individuals or organisations working on our behalf have breached this policy we will ensure that we take appropriate action. This may range from considering the possibility of breaches being remediated and whether that might represent the best outcome for those individuals impacted by the breach to terminating such relationships.

 

 

This policy was revised in October 2023 after being agreed by our board of directors. It is reviewed annually.