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ASRS enters a new phase: Group 1 reports and Group 2 joins the framework

16 September 2026

1 minute read

Group 1 entities are into their second year of ASRS reporting, and Group 2 entities have just started their first, with financial years that kicked off on 1 July 2026. Here's where each group stands, and how to prepare the key components before your next report is due.

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Post Date: 22 July 2023
Read Time: 1 minute

Few companies look at their supply chain as an integrated system and most importantly, at how their own buying practices affect suppliers' ability to meet their own commitments to uphold international labour standards. This report explores how certain characteristics or organisations link to, and may undermine, commitments in typical supply chain labour standards codes of practice. Indeed some companies may be inadvertently pursuing a buying strategy that creates tension, or in some cases directly conflicts with their commitments to ethical sourcing.