On 18 December, the ETUC Executive Committee approved a resolution calling for a European directive on mandatory Human Rights due diligence and responsible business conduct. This should establish mandatory and effective due diligence mechanisms covering companies’ activities and their business relationships, (including franchises) and extending to their supply and subcontracting chains. The ETUC intends to lobby, alongside the NGOs, the EU institutions as well as national governments so that this project makes it onto the policy agenda.
The adopted resolution underlines that ‘The reliance on a voluntary framework to promote business respect for human rights has furthermore proven insufficient and ineffective for workers, society and businesses.’
Referring to various international instruments that are operating concurrently (OECD, Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights etc.), the ETUC highlights ‘a patchwork of measures that do not provide for legal certainty and legal predictability,’ and which ‘creates unfair competit
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