Have you assessed your forced and child labour risks this year? With the May 2026 reporting deadline for Canada’s Bill S-211 on the horizon, Canadian businesses need to ensure they’re well underway to assess and reduce their forced and child labour risks to produce their Annual Report. Non-compliance can result in fines up to $250,000. Now is the time to act.   Improving each year unfortunately means more administrative burden While businesses might feel confident about repea

Challenge A large organisation was required to assess their supply chain for forced labour, child labour, and other modern slavery risks to produce a report for government legislation. For the first year, they did this entirely by hand, including crafting an assessment in excel and sending it to suppliers to fill out. When year two came around, the team had to evaluate, enhance, then repeat the process, and manually make sense of the data again to compile a compliant report f