From 14 Dec 2027, the EU will bar any product made with forced labour—at any stage, even in part. The new guidelines make this an obligation of result: prove your product is clean, fast. With only 30 working days to respond, the evidence that matters most is worker-held and confidential—testimonies, surveys, and grievance records a site can’t stage.

At its 50th anniversary, the OECD reported more workers seeking remedy directly than ever before. But a grievance mechanism that exists on paper isn't one that works — and only workers can tell you the difference. What the shift to remedy means for due diligence, and how worker voice evidences all eight UNGP Principle 31 criteria.

CBP's June 2026 guidance consolidates forced labor enforcement under three legal authorities and raises the evidentiary bar to clear and convincing. The primary evidence it points to is held by workers — here is how to build a record that holds at the border.

An electronics buyer deployed Labor Solutions' WELL Grievance Integrity program across 45 high-risk manufacturing sites in six countries, reaching more than 80,000 workers. Six months after WELL Action Plans were issued, 83% of sites completed their assigned actions and 72% advanced to the next maturity level — turning worker voice into ESRS S2 and CSDDD-ready regulatory evidence.

Worker-Driven Due Diligence doesn't start with a policy — it starts with asking workers directly. The WELL Cycle is how that happens: four connected steps that surface risk, diagnose root cause, drive site-owned action, and build capability, year after year. Six curated programs. One standard. Every value chain.

Open Supply Hub has launched OS Hub Spotlight — a new offering connecting siloed datasets to production facility profiles. Labor Solutions joins as a founding partner, making WOVO Connect operational grievance mechanism data discoverable across OS Hub's open platform. For the first time, brands, suppliers, and civil society organisations can systematically map grievance mechanism coverage at the facility level — a critical step toward meeting CSDDD, LkSG, and UNGP due diligen