Our vision is a world
where people work
under safe, fair,
and legal conditions.
We are experienced.
Multi-Industry field drawn experience of over 20 years
We are engaged.
Ears-on-the-ground from close client and stakeholder collaborations
We are emboldened.
Mission-driven, ensuring workers’ rights succeed in thriving business environment
What We Do
Audits and Assessments
Verité’s social and labor audits are globally recognized as best-in-class, particularly for their ability to provide deep insight to workplace conditions.
We take a comprehensive and worker-centered approach to our examination of workplace and recruitment-related issues that triangulates information from workers, management, documents, and physical observation. In some cases, we include stakeholder interviews for context and insight to localized issues.
Capacity Building and Consulting
One of our major working units is the Capacity Building & Consulting team, composed of dedicated professionals with a blend of expertise in the fields of social audit, learning, research, management interventions and health & safety.
Policy Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement
We pursue comprehensive and inclusive advocacy strategies and campaigns with government, business, workers’ groups and other civil society stakeholders in the region to create meaningful changes in the lives of workers and their families.
Research and Innovation
We design and implement independent, original research, and develop learning materials and tools, to support innovative solutions to systemic labor issues.
Featured Webinars
Verité Ethical Recruitment Auditor Training (Remote Training)
NEW WEBINAR
New dates added for October 2021
Students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
- Understand the compliance benchmarks for no forced labor and trafficking, and ethical recruitment and employment down the labor supply chain.
- Explain the recruitment business models, and risk environment in origin and destination countries, and the controls used to manage risks of forced labor and trafficking.
- Apply effective strategies in gathering, validating, and analyzing information to determine the systems and practices of employers to ensure that all workers are recruited and employed according to ethical recruitment standards
- Demonstrate effective interviewing skills and techniques
- Prepare reports and corrective action plans
- Successfully complete all aspects of an ethical recruitment audit
Sign-up to our Available Courses and explore Convertible Courses now, or reach out to us to find out how we can help bring your social compliance program a notch higher.
Verité Instructor-Led Webinars
Is your organization experiencing any of these?
- Different interpretation of social standards?
- Challenges in the implementation of zero-fee recruitment?
- Seeking help in understanding Foreign Migrant Worker rights?
- Aiming to improve worker interviewing skills?
- Difficulty in addressing social audit findings?
- Perennial social compliance issues?
- Tired of waging an uphill battle just to meet Code-of-Conduct requirements?
Featured Research
Assessing Labor Risk for Workers Migrating From the Philippines to Europe
With over 368,000 Filipino citizens in Europe, the Philippines is a key source of labor in the region. The process of gaining employment in Europe can be fraught with risks; some Filipino workers may find themselves working under exploitative conditions, or under the weight of debt from fees paid during the recruitment and migration process.
With the support of Porticus, Verité conducted an assessment of labor risks for Filipino migrant workers involved in the fishing, seafaring, and domestic work sectors in Europe, as well as in two emerging host countries for Filipino workers: the Czech Republic and Poland. Findings from this research document the root causes of labor risk associated with the recruitment and hiring process and those that arise while being deployed in Europe. For each target sector and host country, the report provides steps that governments, the private sector, civil society, trade unions, and other stakeholders can take to reduce labor exploitation among Filipino migrant workers.
Featured Tools
VSEA developed a set of asynchronous modules for Conservation International to help in the implementation of the Social Responsibility Assessment Tool for the Seafood Sector or SRA.
The modules cover the following topics:
- Module 1: Labor and Human Rights Standards
- Module 2: Effective Data Gathering and Validation in Social Responsibility Assessments
- Module 3: Conducting Key Informant Interviews
- Module 4: Root Cause Analysis
This toolkit was developed to help equip palm oil producers who are looking to build a social compliance program with basic knowledge and tools.
The toolkit is available in Bahasa, English, and Spanish languages in both an interactive online format and as a downloadable file, and was developed with the generous support of Mars, Incorporated and Nestlé.
What's New
Child labor in the coconut supply chain
The Business Case for the Mechanization in the Thai Seafood Sector
The Thai fisheries sector has been under international scrutiny for years. Since the European Union (EU) yellow card on Thai seafood in 2015, the Thai government launched labor reforms, tightened fishing regulations, and became a signatory to the ILO C188 – Work in Fishing Convention (2007).
The business sector improved its supply chain traceability down to the vessel, and the industry attempted to cascade codes of conduct. Despite these improvements, Thailand remained on Tier 2 of the 2020 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report, and perennial labor issues remain, including freely chosen employment, working hours, humane treatment, and wage payments, among others.
Justice for Wage Theft
Verité Southeast Asia supports the Migrant Forum in Asia’s Justice for Wage Theft campaign and has collaborated with them in putting together a white paper and convening a brainstorming session with representatives from business and the private sector to analyze the issue and discuss the role of business in preventing and detecting cases of wage theft and providing remedy for migrant workers experiencing the issue.
