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Human rights: 10 years on and businesses have a new responsibility - The Global Action Plan blog
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UK civil society campaign for a law on corporate human rights abuses - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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As previous client alerts have set out, momentum is building across a range of jurisdictions toward legalizing companies’ obligations to respect human rights and promote ESG issues generally. While in Europe, this has centered on mandatory human rights due diligence proposals (as set out in our previous update, available here), in the UK attention has focused on adapting the ‘failure to prevent’ structure as set out in the UK Bribery Act 2010.
This attention continues to build. Most recently, the large retailer ASOS has recently called for the UK Government to specifically adopt the failure to prevent model as set out in a report by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (
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Four years after the enactment of the Duty of Vigilance Law, the French National Assembly adopted in first reading on 4 May 2021 the Climate and Resilience bill which clarifies in its Article 71 ter the question of which French court has jurisdiction over disputes relating to the Duty of Vigilance Law.
Background
The Duty of Vigilance for parent companies was introduced into the French Commercial Code by the Duty of Vigilance Law on 27 March 2017. The statute provides for French corporations with over 5,000 employees in France and/or over 10,000 employees worldwide (including affiliates’ employees) to set up, publish and implement a “vigilance plan”. The objective of such plan is to identify, anticipate and prevent human rights violations that might result from the activities of the parent company, its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates, as well as suppliers and subcontractors.
EU Drives a New Approach to Supply Chain Sustainability | NAVEX Global
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