Mitigating human rights risk in the supply chain

Traditionally confined to the purview of voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility norms or "soft law", addressing human rights concerns in the supply chain has quickly become a legal imperative for companies across all industries and sectors, including retail and consumer products, technology, financial services, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing.

In this seminar, we will discuss strategies for mitigating legal and reputation risk arising from:

• directly or indirectly sourcing from or supplying high risk jurisdictions, including China
• new requirements prohibiting the importation of and dealing in any goods made whole or in part from forced labour
• emerging modern slavery laws requiring public disclosure of your supply chain due diligence
• economic sanctions laws targeting human rights violations
• expanded human rights criteria for export and technology transfer controls
• recent case law on liability of companies in Canada for human rights violations committed by their subsidiaries abroad

This program contains 1.5 hours of Substantive content under the Law Society of Ontario's mandatory CPD Regime.

This event is open and free of charge only to in-house counsel who are practicing lawyers and are current members of a provincial law society; however, you must RSVP to attend. Please RSVP by no later than Tuesday, November 23, 2021.

ACC Ontario reserves the right to review all registrations for eligibility. In-house counsel must be ACC members or meet ACC membership eligibility. Please click here for further details.

Note: All instructions and information on how to access the webinar will be sent by email in advance of the program.

Questions? Please email us.