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Sustainable Business Matters
We’re here to make radical change and end modern slavery and labour exploitation in the interior fit out, furniture and building industry.
Are you in?
Join the movement to end Modern Slavery
There are approximately 49.6 million men, women AND children in modern slavery, with more than half of these victims in the Asian pacific region where there are strong links to Australian businesses.
The uncomfortable truth: there is a high likelihood of modern slavery and labour exploitation in YOUR supply chain.
We work with value-based companies that are passionate about eliminating labour exploitation and modern slavery in their business operations and supply chain.
We are not here to tick boxes.
More businesses are procuring ethical and sustainable products for their interior fitouts.
They want to protect the environment and eliminate labour exploitation as part of THEIR supply chain.
The request for companies (or product manufacturers) to be addressing modern slavery in their business operations and supply chain is appearing in:
Contracts
Tender requirements
Supplier evaluation process
Certification standards, such as GECA
This movement is gaining momentum in Australia and this is your invitation to move the interior fit out industry towards a more ethical and sustainable future.
We work with the following types of businesses:
Interior fit out and building product manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers
Furniture and Homeware Retailers
Commercial office furniture manufacturers and retailers
Manufacturers and distributors of consumer products
Architects and Design firms
We put 100% of our energy into working with you to eliminate modern slavery and labour exploitation in your supply chain.
This may get uncomfortable, and you have our support to guide you through the process AND the potential to change people’s lives.
This your chance to protect vulnerable people:
Prevent child labour
End unsafe working conditions
Workers being forced to work against their will
End discrimination and harassment in the workplace
Workers not earning at the least a minimum wage
End debt bondage and deceptive recruitment
In other words, this process makes a massive change to people’s health and safety, wellbeing and income. It’s literally changing lives, one supplier at a time.
In the end, we want you to feel proud that you’re working for a values-based organisation that’s doing the right thing for people and the environment.
We work in consultation with you
Why Sustainable Business Matters?
And we do that by working with you one-on-one, with our Principal Consultant Libby Staggs as your primary point of contact.
It’s a model we’ve developed to ensure that, as a client, you enjoy a personalised service, with direct access to Libby and her wealth of knowledge and expertise in all things sustainability.
A committed advocate for sustainable business, with a passion for bringing positive change to industry, Libby is an active and influential member of the eco-labelling and ‘green’ community and is on the GBCA’s expert reference panel for human rights.
“Thinking Works has been working with Libby for over 14 years. Libby’s passion, energy and love of sustainability, AND our business has helped drive real and meaningful change, especially in tackling modern slavery and human rights in our supply chains. Libby has developed an extremely thorough plan to identify potential modern slavery risks and she works closely with staff to understand our suppliers, and ensure we are working with the highest possible integrity.
She knows how to get others engaged, and has inspired the staff to make Thinking Works a cleaner and more considerate business. The financial investment has been recovered over and over through staff engagement and client retention. It’s a great collaboration which has meant Thinking Works is recognized as a leader in Sustainability in the office fit out industry.”
