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Tool 6: Spanish: Verité research has found that the use of labor brokers (including recruiters, labor contractors, crew leaders, village agents, and in some cases employment agencies) is widespread in the Latin American coffee sector. Coffee producers often turn to labor recruiters when there is an urgent need for workers, especially during the labor-intensive harvest season. While labor brokers can play an important role in coffee supply chains by ensuring a constant supply of farmworkers, unscrupulous labor brokers may engage in unethical practices that put workers at risk, and at the same time create legal and reputational risks for coffee producers, traders, and roasters alike. Therefore, it is necessary that they put systems in place to identify and address potential risks related to labor recruitment in their supply chains. This tool contains background information on recruitment-related risks identified by Verité in the Latin American coffee sector, as well as information on concrete red flags related to recruitment in coffee supply chains and key steps that companies can take to address these risks.

Tool 6: Verité research has found that the use of labor brokers (including recruiters, labor contractors, crew leaders, village agents, and in some cases employment agencies) is widespread in the Latin American coffee sector. Coffee producers often turn to labor recruiters when there is an urgent need for workers, especially during the labor-intensive harvest season. While labor brokers can play an important role in coffee supply chains by ensuring a constant supply of farmworkers, unscrupulous labor brokers may engage in unethical practices that put workers at risk, and at the same time create legal and reputational risks for coffee producers, traders, and roasters alike. Therefore, it is necessary that they put systems in place to identify and address potential risks related to labor recruitment in their supply chains. This tool contains background information on recruitment-related risks identified by Verité in the Latin American coffee sector, as well as information on concrete red flags related to recruitment in coffee supply chains and key steps that companies can take to address these risks.

Tool 7: Portuguese: Effective communication and training on Code of Conduct standards represent a key building block for successful adoption of social responsibility practices by all supply chain actors, from the coffee bean producer to the coffee retailer. The need for straightforward information on what is required of supply chain partners and their workers is often underestimated. This is even more the case with building the knowhow and technical skills to implement both Code of Conduct and legal requirements, including mitigating risks to workers and remediating issues that arise.

Tool 7: Spanish: Effective communication and training on Code of Conduct standards represent a key building block for successful adoption of social responsibility practices by all supply chain actors, from the coffee bean producer to the coffee retailer. The need for straightforward information on what is required of supply chain partners and their workers is often underestimated. This is even more the case with building the knowhow and technical skills to implement both Code of Conduct and legal requirements, including mitigating risks to workers and remediating issues that arise.

Tool 8: Portuguese: This tool has been designed to introduce effective monitoring concepts and red flags for labor risks among coffee sector workers as well as guidance on conducting worker interviews and triangulating information to detect labor risks. While the information included in this tool will be helpful for most actors along the coffee supply chain that interact directly with producers, the main target users for this tool are those actors who regularly conduct farm-level monitoring. This tool is thus most helpful for field technicians, monitors, and certification bodies.

Tool 8: Spanish: This tool has been designed to introduce effective monitoring concepts and red flags for labor risks among coffee sector workers as well as guidance on conducting worker interviews and triangulating information to detect labor risks. While the information included in this tool will be helpful for most actors along the coffee supply chain that interact directly with producers, the main target users for this tool are those actors who regularly conduct farm-level monitoring. This tool is thus most helpful for field technicians, monitors, and certification bodies.

Tool 9a: Portuguese: This SAQ is geared towards helping coffee traders identify potential labor risks1 in their operations and to provide them with concrete steps that they can take to address identified risks. The SAQ is an internal tool, which does not require the sharing of your answers with anyone, so it is best for users of the SAQ to answer the questions as fully, honestly, and accurately as possible so that the recommendations generated most closely meet the user’s needs.

Tool 9a: Spanish: This SAQ is geared towards helping coffee tradersidentify potential labor risks1 in their operations and to provide them with concrete steps that they can take to address identified risks. The SAQ is an internal tool, which does not require the sharing of your answers with anyone, so it is best for users of the SAQ to answer the questions as fully, honestly, and accurately as possible so that the recommendations generated most closely meet the user’s needs.

Tool 9a: This SAQ is geared towards helping coffee traders identify potential labor risks1 in their operations and to provide them with concrete steps that they can take to address identified risks. The SAQ is an internal tool, which does not require the sharing of your answers with anyone, so it is best for users of the SAQ to answer the questions as fully, honestly, and accurately as possible so that the recommendations generated most closely meet the user’s needs.

Tool 9b: Spanish: Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs) are a set of self-administered questions that allow the user of the SAQ to identify potential risks or gaps in their standards, systems, and practices. The purpose of an SAQ is to give the user a space to reflect and introspectively assess themselves and their performance across a range of topics. This SAQ is geared towards helping coffee producers identify potential labor risks1 in their operations and to provide them with concrete steps that they can take to address identified risks. The SAQ is an internal tool, which does not require the sharing of your answers with anyone, so it is best for users of the SAQ to answer the questions as fully, honestly, and accurately as possible so that the recommendations generated most closely meet the user’s needs.