Combatting Human Trafficking in Research

icon   Compliance Plans

Roles and responsibilities, administrative communication channels, notifications, and reporting requirements in the Compliance Plan for Combatting Human Trafficking. When a Compliance Plan is required, this template serves as the basis for individual plans.

The PI must apply thier knowledge of the research to determine whether the provisiions included in the Compliance Plan are sufficient or whether additional safeguards are needed. The PI may add additional safeguards to the project by appending duties to the template.

 icon   Compliance plan template (COMING SOON)

icon   Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is defined as the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining a person for labor services or commercial sex acts through force, fraud, or coercion (including any commercial sex act involving a minor), for the purpose of exploitation, involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.

Under federal regulations, the University is required to notify its employees and agents of the United States government policy prohibiting trafficking in persons, as described above. In the context of a federally sponsored research project, examples of trafficking include:

• engaging in trafficking in persons during the performance of the award;

• procuring a commercial sex act during the performance of the award;

• using forced labor during the performance of the award;

• destroying or denying access by an employee to his, her or their identity or immigration documents;

• using misleading or fraudulent practices during the recruitment of employees, such as failing to disclose key terms or conditions of employment (e.g., wages and benefits, the location of work, any costs to be charged to the employee or, if applicable, the hazardous nature of the work);

• using recruiters that do not comply with the local labor laws of the country in which the recruiting takes place; and

• charging employees recruiting fees.

Any employee found to be engaging in prohibited activities is subject to immediate discipline, including termination.

icon   Resources

University employees are expected to report any activity involving trafficking. The University prohibits any retliatory action against individuals who make a good-faith disclosure of suspected human trafficking activities.

University of Utah Internal Reporting

• Submit an anonymous tip online through EthicsPoint

National Human Trafficking Hotline

• Call thier toll-free hotline 24/7 at 1-888-373-7888
• Text at 233722
• Chat via humantraffickinghotline.org/chat
• Submit a tip online through the anonymous online reporting form