Overview

Many organisations have strengthened their human rights due diligence commitments, yet translating meaningful worker engagement into day-to-day practice remains a common challenge. While worker voice is increasingly recognised as an important component of effective due diligence, organisations continue to explore how it can best complement existing processes and inform decision-making.

Bringing together speakers with diverse perspectives across the worker voice ecosystem, this session will focus on lessons learned from implementing collaborative worker engagement initiatives across different supply chain contexts. Through practical experiences from the field, speakers will share what has worked, where challenges remain, and how collaboration can help build trusted channels for workers to raise concerns and provide feedback.

Drawing on implementation experience from diverse supply chain contexts, the panel will share practical examples of how organisations have built trusted worker engagement mechanisms, fostered meaningful participation, responded to worker feedback, and integrated worker voice into their human rights due diligence processes. Discussions will touch on issues affecting migrant workers, workplace safety, and power imbalances linked to gender and other vulnerabilities, offering practical reflections and lessons learned that participants can adapt within their own worker engagement and human rights due diligence programmes.

Why it matters

Many organisations have strengthened their Human Rights Due Diligence commitments, yet meaningful worker engagement remains one of the most difficult aspects to implement in practice. Building on the experiences shared in this session, participants will gain practical lessons and diverse perspectives to help strengthen worker engagement, support more responsive decision-making, and bridge the gap between HRDD commitments and implementation.

Key questions

• What does meaningful worker engagement look like in practice across different supply chain contexts?

• How do organisations build trust with workers and create channels that encourage meaningful participation?

• How can worker feedback be integrated into existing human rights due diligence processes to support better decision-making and remediation?

• What lessons from implementation can organisations adapt to strengthen their own worker engagement programmes?

Who should attend?

Human rights, sustainability and responsible sourcing professionals, brands, suppliers, implementing partners, NGOs, development agencies, and anyone interested in strengthening worker engagement in supply chains.

What participants will gain

• How global and local insights complement each other in human rights due diligence.

• Practical examples of translating worker voice into actionable insights for risk identification and supplier engagement.

• Ideas for building more responsive, evidence-based human rights due diligence through continuous worker engagement.

Additional resources

www.pingtar.com, https://resources.ecovadis.com/ecovadis-solution-materials/ecovadis-worker-voice-connect-brochure