The SC’s efforts to implement its WW Standards among its contractors in this year have resulted in progress on reimbursement of recruitment fees, worker representation, annual air ticket allowance and provision of repatriation flights...

Impactt [identified] fewer priority areas – with the topics of ‘worker representation’, ‘contracts and administration’ and ‘treatment’ all improving in terms of fewer critical and major issues uncovered...

Impactt also notes an increase in worker satisfaction...

The year-on-year decrease in compliance scores and closure rates is attributable to the following factors:

• A sample that focused on a higher proportion of lower tier subcontractors... with less robust policies and practices...
• Two subcontractors performed particularly poorly... These subcontractors did not make the necessary improvements, which resulted in the SC suspending business.