National and Labour have teamed up with a Members’ Bill that aims to address modern slavery in Aotearoa. Modern slavery includes human trafficking, slavery, forced marriage, forced labour and debt bondage. And that's common as I understand it, in other modern slavery regimes that have been implemented worldwide." Getting it throughWork has been done in the past to look into modern slavery legislation with the Labour-led government in 2023 planning to make businesses publicly report on modern slavery risks. Modern slavery legislation was a big gap in the country’s corporate regulatory landscape, they said.
