GRI has issued four draft updated standards on workers’ rights and protections – Workers in Business Relationships (GRI 414), Forced Labour (GRI 409), Child Labour (GRI 408) and Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining (GRI 407).
Harold Pauwels, GRI standards director, said: “Our revised Standards aim to set clearer expectations for how companies identify their labour-related impacts and risks, involve workers, and make improvements in their own operations and across value chains.”
A public consultation is open on the draft standards until 9 March 2026.
GRI will host two webinars (on 16 December and 18 February) to discuss the proposed changes to its workers’ rights standards.
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