APAC Building Responsibly Worker Welfare Workshop

By Invitation Only

Singapore

March 31, 2026

9:30 am - 5 pm SGT

Registration

Across Asia-Pacific (APAC), major construction, energy, and maritime infrastructure projects heavily rely on cross-border migrant workers, notably from Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and other neighboring countries. These dynamics create shared worker welfare risks across the region, including recruitment fees, debt bondage, excessive overtime, and complex subcontracting arrangements.

Singapore—a major regional hub for construction, ports, and shipping—accounts for a high concentration of these risks, making it a critical focal point for regional learning and action. While Singapore has a relatively advanced regulatory framework, gaps persist in the implementation of worker welfare protections, especially within contractor and supplier networks—challenges mirrored across APAC markets.

Using Singapore as a regional anchor, this Building Responsibly workshop will provide a practical forum for companies and relevant stakeholders to better understand migrant worker welfare risks, align on minimum standards, and identify concrete, context-specific actions to improve recruitment practices and working conditions across APAC supply chains.

Workshop Objectives

Build a shared understanding of key migrant worker welfare risks in APAC construction, energy, and maritime sectors
Examine recruitment-related risks, including recruitment fees, unlicensed recruitment agencies, and opaque hiring practices
Explore responsible subcontracting challenges within complex supplier–contractor relationships
Facilitate peer learning through practical scenarios, sectoral case discussions, and site-based insights
Identify opportunities to strengthen regional collaboration and networks in APAC, and explore establishing a Building Responsibly APAC chapter to bring together clients, contractors, and suppliers to advance worker welfare

This practical workshop is designed for operations, procurement, and supply chain practitioners in the construction, energy, and maritime sectors across APAC. The session will be particularly useful for sustainability, human rights, health, safety, and environment (HSE), and project delivery teams seeking pragmatic ways to address migrant worker welfare risks in complex contracting environments.

This Chatham House Rule workshop is free to attend and open to non-Building Responsibly members.

Please note: This event is designed for representatives from large companies, non-profit organizations, government, and academic institutions. Capacity is limited. We cannot guarantee admittance and priority seating will be given to Building Responsibly members and their partners.

Scheduled Speakers

Claudio Formisano, Global Lead, Human Trafficking and Forced Labor, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Global Lead, Human Trafficking and Forced Labor, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Claudio leads BSR’s portfolio on addressing modern slavery, human trafficking, and forced labor. He develops guidance for companies seeking to prevent and mitigate human trafficking and forced labor risks and advances policies to scale impact through BSR’s collaborative initiatives like Tech Against Trafficking, the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and Building Responsibly.

He brings almost two decades of years of experience in managing multidisciplinary programs on criminal justice, human rights, and security in multilateral settings. Prior to joining BSR, he worked at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), establishing and leading the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT). As a senior advisor to the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he oversaw country needs assessments in North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

Claudio holds a MA in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria and an Executive Certificate from Harvard JFK School of Government in building and leading diverse organizations. He speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

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Alice Pease, Manager, Human Rights, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Manager, Human Rights, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Alice works with members across sectors to advance human rights through cross-industry and multi-stakeholder collaboration. She manages several collaborative initiatives, including Building Responsibly, the Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT), and the Healthcare and Human Rights Forum.

At BSR, Alice has supported members in designing and implementing human rights governance, strategy, and due diligence, with a particular focus on anti-trafficking.

Prior to joining BSR, Alice managed a campaign at the British Parliament on an initiative to strengthen the supply chain transparency requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Previously, she had policy and research roles with a human rights focus at the Argentine Council for International Relations, the European Commission, and the Italian National Research Council. Alice is the co-author of Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, published by Polity in 2018.

Alice holds an MA in International Relations: Latin America—Europe from the University of Bologna and an MA in History and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish.