News update as of March 12, 2018

On the menu : French Government mulls potential reforms to give companies ‘purpose’ and encourage long-term stratégies, Creation of a ‘skills council’ for the automobile industry, Retail Sector Council launched in the UK, Tripartite talks to outline reforms in Morocco, Draft bill on pay transparency tabled in Ontario, Bank accounts viewed as a means of combatting modern slavery in the fishing sector in Thailand. 
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France/ Government mulls potential reforms to give companies ‘purpose’ and encourage long-term strategies.

On 9 March a report entitled ‘L’entreprise, objet d’intérêt collectif’ (Companies – object of collective interest’) was handed to the French government. It contains around fifteen proposals to inject the pursuit of social and environmental sustainability into company DNA. The government will have to decide what it will preserve and insert in a draft bill planned for 18 April. The report pr

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