Antoine Piel

On November 28, the Belgian Chamber of Representatives approved a bill transposing the E.U. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Belgium was one of the countries lagging behind on...

On September 16, 2024, Amazon‘s CEO Andy Jassy announced the end of remote working for 350,000 administrative staff (i.e. 23%). This flexibility ends on January 2, 2025. “When we look...

As companies are investing in CSRD, fashion retailers are signing more and more agreements to protect the rights of workers and subcontractors in their manufacturing and transport process.

Eight months before the publication of the first extra-financial reports, CSRD is shaping up to be a major challenge for European retailers. Headaches include collecting data from globalised...

Despite French opposition and Germany‘s abstention, the European Council approved the directive on platform workers, thanks to the new votes of Greece and Estonia. It will be the...

After documents for CSRD, the EU will complete a regulatory framework on CSR with a directive covering due diligence. Validated by members, the agreement on the text, still streamlined, only needs...

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive has failed to win support from the qualified majority of member states needed to reach the final vote in the European Parliament. The...

From 2025, the supply chains of European retailers, as well as those of large companies operating within the Old Continent, will have to respect human rights and environmental sustainability...

Ten years after the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, the Bangladesh government announced on November 7th, 2023 an increase of 56% of the minimum wage in the textile sector. From US$75 per month...

Democratising HR data can have a real impact on retail businesses. This is the belief of Cartier, which is operating with the Visier cloud platform for team planning and analytics. Beyond simple...

After the complaint filed in July 2023 in France against Uniqlo, Inditex and Skechers, on August 24, Canada’s corporate ethics watchdog opened investigations into three companies (Walmart...

From 2021, the sporting goods retailer Decathlon partnered with a Heyteam staff induction platform to seamlessly integrate new work-study students. These have more than doubled in three years. The...