This month, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, launched the National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility 2014-2016. Entitled “Good for Business, Good for the Community,” it aims to strengthen the government’s objective of making the Irish economy more competitive. It contains a chapter on CSR practices in the workplace.
This plan is part of the actions undertaken within the framework of the Employment Action Plan adopted in 2013 in order to make the Irish economy more competitive. The Minister highlighted the role CSR can play in getting the economy out of the crisis, for Ireland to become, by 2016, “a modern, fair, socially inclusive and equal society supported by a productive and prosperous economy,” as the government program stated in 2011. This plan, the first ever, details the government’s primary...
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