UNI Global Union filed a complaint for violation of the OECD’s guidelines with the Spanish national contact point, as this is where Prosegur’s headquarters are located. The private security company is accused of pay discrimination, harassment and retaliation against workers that are affiliated with a union. All these abuses have allegedly been going on since 2011 in Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Paraguay. This action and the campaign relayed in the press comes as Prosegur is one of the key candidates for the security contracts for the 2014 World Cut and 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil. (Ref. 130753)
The complaint filed on November 26 by UNI Global Union with the Spanish government lists a series of lasting violations of the OECD’s guidelines for multinational enterprises by Prosegur, the largest private security company in Spain and Latin America. Since the headquarters are in Madrid, the complaint was filed with the Spanish National Contact Point (the NCP is the national organization in charge of analyzing, in each country, complaints regarding implementation of the guidelines),...
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