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On 09 December, the German Employment and Social Affairs Employment Minister, Hubertus Heil (SPD), announced during an interview that he, along with his Economic Cooperation and Development...

10 December 2019

United Kingdom: bonuses for TSB bank managers and executives to be cut for missing its gender balance targets

On 03 December, The Guardian daily newspaper revealed that executives and managers at the Edinburgh-headquartered TSB bank will likely see their 2019 bonuses cut for failing to meet its targets...

4 December 2019

The World Players Association reminds Sports Governing bodies (SGBs) of their CSR obligations

The World Players Association (WPA), that represents players and athletes globally (85,000 sportspeople across more than 100 players associations and across more than 60 countries), and which acts...

26 November 2019

United States: Intel includes diversity as criteria for selecting legal service providers

In a statement published on 21 November, the US tech corporation Intel called on its corporate law departments, located in the US, to consider performance on diversity when using external law...

25 November 2019

ACT: freedom of association guideline adopted by Myanmar textiles industry

On 13 November 2019, after eight months of negotiations, and along with the IndustriALL affiliate, Industrial Workers’ Federation of Myanmar (IWFM), garment and textiles factories in Myanmar...

19 November 2019

India: Starbucks announces it has achieved gender pay equity and will continue to raise the female employee participation rate

On 05 November 2019, Tata Starbucks, a 50/50 joint-venture between Tata Global Beverages and the Californian Starbucks company announced in a statement (here in English) that its female...

15 November 2019

Germany: companies showing little concern for human rights

The School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, a British NGO, have probed the practices and actions of 20...

8 November 2019

Great Britain: legal firm threatens damages against tobacco giant British American Tobacco

Leigh Day, the UK-based legal firm, specializing in human rights, has sent a pre-action letter to the London headquarters of the tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) announcing its...

5 November 2019

Great Britain: Standard Life Aberdeen insurance offers 9 months paid parental leave

Starting January 2020, all new parents working for Standard Life Aberdeen (regardless of gender and including those having recourse to adoption and/or surrogacy) will, from the moment of hire...

31 October 2019

The European Trade Union confederation (ETUC) and the central US AFL-CIO trade union criticize the double standards of European corporates operating within the Southern States of the US

In a joint statement (here) on 21 October, the ETUC and the AFL-CIO denounced the ‘double standards’ of European corporates that do not uphold freedom of association and overall workers’ rights...

22 October 2019

United States : Intel chooses the transparency route and will release employee pay data broken down by race and gender

After a Bloomberg report on 17 October (here), Intel Corp has said that later this year it will publicly release the employee pay data that it sends to the US authorities, which is broken down by...

22 October 2019

Work-life balance and professional equality : two new indexes

New indexes concerning professional equality and work-life balance are now accessible. On 11 October, the European Institute for Gender Equality published its 2019 index on gender equality and...

21 October 2019

UN : discussions over a treaty on the liability of transnational businesses for human rights violations to recommence

The UN inter-governmental working group on transnational businesses and human rights is to hold a fifth session of discussions over an international, legally binding instrument between 14 and 18...

11 October 2019

Amazon sets out its ‘positions’ on a range of social and societal topics

Faced with ever more questions about its practices, especially from its own employees, as the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group demonstrated, the tech giant decided on 10 October to...

11 October 2019

88 NGOs and trade unions launch an appeal for a European regulation making human rights and environmental due diligence mandatory

On 03 October 2019 a coalition of 88 NGOs and European trade union organizations (ETUC, Uni Europa, EFBWW, EPSU, EFFAT, ETF, and IndustriAll Europe) called for the adoption of a regulation that...

10 October 2019

Great Britain : large firms reach 30% target for women on boards

For the first time, the boards of companies listed on the FTSE 350 stock market index have reached a 30% level of female representation. “This is an incredible milestone on the journey...

4 October 2019

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