Canada Updates Forced And Child Labor Reporting Guidance – Key Updates For 2025 Compliance And Reporting

On November 15, Public Safety Canada updated its online guidance for entities that report under the Canadian Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act. As discussed in this post, the updated guidance includes important changes and clarifications that will impact compliance and reporting in the current period. The next reports under the Act are due on May 31, 2025.

The Act is often referred to as Canada's modern slavery reporting statute, although in some respects it is broader than modern slavery reporting requirements in other jurisdictions. The requirements of the Act are discussed in our earlier Alert. In another recent post, we discuss the benchmarking data for the first year of reporting published by Public Safety Canada last month.