Human Rights Policy

1. Policy statement

AI Workforce Alliance Inc. ("The Alliance") respects the human rights of every person our work touches. That includes our employees, contractors, clients, the people who use the AI systems we help build, and the communities where we operate.

We help organizations bring AI into how people work. That gives us a direct responsibility. AI can expand opportunity, or it can quietly erode privacy, fairness, and dignity at work. We commit to the first outcome and actively guard against the second.

This policy sets out what we commit to, how we put it into practice, and how anyone can raise a concern.

2. Scope

This policy applies to:

All employees and officers of AI Workforce Alliance Inc.
Independent contractors, consultants, and facilitators who deliver work under The Alliance name
Suppliers, technology vendors, and subcontractors that support our services
Every client engagement, including advisory work, training, workshops, and AI system builds

We expect our business partners to uphold standards consistent with this policy.

3. Standards we follow

We base this policy on internationally recognized standards:

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Covenants on Human Rights (the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct

We comply with all applicable U.S. federal, North Carolina, and local laws. Where the law sets a lower bar than these standards, we follow the higher one.

4. Our commitments

In our workplace

Fair treatment: We hire, pay, promote, and develop people based on merit. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction, social origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis protected by law. We actively build diversity and inclusion into our team, our training programs, and the AI systems we help design.
Fair pay and hours: We pay at or above legal minimums and pay on time. We respect applicable international standards, including ILO standards, on maximum working hours, minimum breaks, and rest periods. We set workloads and deadlines that people can meet within those limits.
Freely chosen work: We do not use forced, bonded, or prison labor. We prohibit modern slavery and human trafficking in any form. We never hold identity documents or charge recruitment fees.
No child labor: We do not employ anyone under the legal working age.
Health, safety, and wellbeing: We provide a safe workplace, in person and remote. We support flexible work and working parents. We do not hire or use private or public security forces.
Freedom of association: We respect each person's right to join or not join an association, to bargain collectively, and to speak up without fear.

In our AI and technology work

Our work shapes how AI enters other people's jobs. We hold ourselves to these commitments in every engagement:

Privacy: We collect only the data a project needs, protect it, and follow client data-handling requirements and applicable privacy law.
Fairness: We test AI workflows for bias and discriminatory outcomes before we recommend them for use.
Human oversight: We design AI to support human judgment, not replace it in decisions that significantly affect people's jobs, pay, or access to services.
Transparency: We tell clients what AI tools can and cannot do, and we encourage them to tell their workforce when AI is in use.
No harmful surveillance: We will not build or advise on systems meant to unlawfully monitor, profile, or retaliate against workers.
Workforce impact: We help clients plan for reskilling and communication when AI changes roles.

With our clients

We may decline or end an engagement if it would require us to cause or contribute to human rights harm. We raise concerns with clients directly and early.

In our supply chain

We choose vendors and subcontractors who share these values. We favor technology providers with published responsible AI, privacy, and labor standards. We review vendors when we onboard them and when we learn of a credible risk.

In our communities

We expand access to AI skills through training, education, and public speaking. We aim to make AI literacy available to people who might otherwise be left behind.

For groups that need particular attention

Some people face greater risk of harm and need specific protection. We commit to respect the rights set out in:

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

We pay close attention to how AI systems affect women, children, persons with disabilities, migrant workers, and minority groups. We design and test our work so it does not deepen existing inequality.

For the environment

A healthy environment supports human rights. We minimize waste, energy use, and pollution in our operations. We comply with all applicable environmental laws, and we favor vendors with responsible environmental practices.

5. Human rights due diligence

We scale our due diligence to our size and the risk in each engagement. Our process:

Assess: At the start of each client engagement, we review how the AI use case could affect workers, customers, or the public.
Act: We build safeguards into the design, such as human review steps, data minimization, and bias checks.
Monitor: We review high-impact engagements at key milestones and at handoff.
Report: We share this policy publicly and report on our progress on request from clients and public-sector partners.

We keep records of our risk assessments, preventive and remedial measures, and complaints received for at least seven years.

6. Raising concerns

Anyone can raise a human rights concern related to our work. That includes employees, contractors, clients, vendors, and members of the public.

Email: Ashley@aiworkforcealliance.com

We review every concern promptly and confidentially. We accept concerns in any language and provide accessible formats on request, so language or technical barriers never block a report. We prohibit retaliation against anyone who raises a concern in good faith.

7. Remediation

If we find that we caused or contributed to a human rights harm, we will act to make it right. That may include stopping the activity, correcting the system or process, and working with affected people on a fair remedy. Where a business partner causes harm linked to our work, we will use our influence to address it.

8. Governance and review

Our Founder and CEO owns this policy and is accountable for it. Every employee and contractor receives this policy at onboarding and confirms they have read it. We review the policy at least once a year and update it as our business, the law, and AI practice change.