Modern Slavery

1. Introduction

INFLUENCE AT WORK UK is committed to the principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the abolition of modern slavery and human trafficking.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating and ensuring a non-discriminatory and respectful working environment for our staff. We want all our team to feel confident that they can expose wrongdoing without any risk to themselves.

2. Our People

Our recruitment and people management processes are designed to ensure that all prospective employees are legally entitled to work in the UK and to safeguard employees from any abuse or coercion.

We are committed to awareness training for our employees. We deliver training on this topic as a mandatory training module via our uSecure on-line training platform and reinforce the importance of this policy via our Monthly Mindset learning and development sessions.

We have defined routes for our team to raise any concerns regarding modern slavery be it within our own business, our supply chain or customers and encourage them to do so.

3. Customers, Partners and Our Supply Chain

We do not enter into business with any organisation, in the UK or abroad, which knowingly supports or is found to be involved in slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.

Due to the nature of our business, we assess ourselves to have a low risk of modern slavery in our business and supply chains. Our supply chains are mainly service providers and we work closely with most of our business partners and their staff. We do not utilise or process many goods but have verified that our main goods suppliers (for example stationary suppliers) have also demonstrated a commitment to Modern Slavery act compliance.

4. Raising a Concern

We want all our staff to feel confident that they can expose wrongdoing without any risk to themselves. A concern may be about the company, customers, business partners, supply chain or other third parties. It is important that our staff do speak up if they have a concern, even if unsure, so that we can investigate.

Any concern identified with regards to Modern Slavery can be raised with the following people within the business:

• A line manager
• The Office Manager
• The Chief Operating Officer
• The Chief Executive Officer

In the event that the employee does feel able to raise the issue with any of the above parties, the issue can be raised with a non-Executive Board Director.

5. Responsibilities

• The Chief Operating Office has responsibility and authority in regards to implementing our policies, ensuring training and awareness, and that any concerns are robustly addressed.
• All staff have a responsibility to speak up about any concerns and will be supported in doing so.