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Published
December 11, 2024
The mission of Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) is to educate employers on how to prevent human trafficking and create pathways to employment for survivors.
BEST equips employers to counter human trafficking through the following:
Awareness: BEST helps employers raise awareness to stop human trafficking.
Consultation: BEST consults with employers on strategies to counter human trafficking, advises on best practices, and provides model policies.
Training: BEST trains employees to implement best practices and stop exploitation before it happens.
Safe Jobs: BEST enables employers to provide jobs for trafficking survivors and people considered at risk.
BEST works with employers across industries in all 50 U.S. states and over 97 other countries.
Since 2012, BEST has impacted millions with awareness and training on human trafficking:
- Over 400 employers provided with consultation.
- 209,000 people trained to identify and assist victims.
- 780 survivors and at-risk individuals obtained employment.
- 264 billion media impressions generated to raise awareness and amplify how employers can counter human trafficking.
BEST’s Recommendations for Employers:
- Inform employees about the organization’s anti-exploitation values.
- Adopt and communicate anti-human trafficking policies.
- Train employees to recognize behavioral indicators of force, fraud, and coercion and know how to report potential situations of trafficking.
- Align suppliers to avoid forced labor in the organization’s supply chains.
- Post outreach signage addressed to trafficking victims on the organization’s premises.
- Demonstrate industry and community leadership to counter human trafficking.
- Leverage the organization’s unique attributes to support anti-trafficking efforts.
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About the authors
Michael Billet
Michael Billet, director of policy research for Employment Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, keeps members and internal Chamber policy staff abreast of pending labor, immigration, and health care legislation, as well as federal regulatory and subregulatory activities. He is also responsible for planning the Chamber’s annual workplace and community wellness forum.
