Avetta's Lynda Richards says grievance mechanisms must be tested as a proposed failure to prevent offence raises the stakes for employers
Australian employers that log zero modern slavery grievances in a year should treat the result as a warning sign, not a win, a supply chain risk specialist has cautioned, as new research finds the country's largest companies say little about what happens after workers raise a concern.
Lynda Richards, health, safety and environment principal at supply chain risk management company Avetta, told HRD that too many organisations misread an empty complaints log. She pointed to "organisations thinking that we don't have any reports, grievance reports for the last year, that's something to be celebrated."
"I don't consider that is something to be celebrated. [I'd] probably question how effective is our process if we're not getting one within a year," she said.
Her warning comes weeks after a Monash University-led report found grievance and remediation disclosure in the modern slavery statements of Australia's biggest listed companies remains underdeveloped – and as the federal government weighs a criminal offence for large companies that fail to prevent modern slavery in their supply chains.
The report, Grievance Mechanisms and Remediation, released by the Monash Centre for Financial Studies, assessed the FY2024 modern slavery statements of the 39 largest Financials and Materials companies in the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) 100.
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