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Japan: large companies increasing initiatives to promote male/female equality
KDDI Corp. — a Japanese telephone service provider — has been awarded the first J-Win “prize for diversity” for 2015, for its efforts to promote diversity and male/female equality. This prize is...
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29 April 2015
Two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, a 6 million $ shortfall remains in the compensation fund for families of those who lost their lives or were wounded.
On April 24 2013 a textile factory collapsed in Bangladesh causing the death of more than 1,100 workers who produced garments for Western companies. The tragedy also left several thousand wounded...
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24 April 2015
Stora Enso and the ILO sign a unique partnership to promote decent work and combat child labor in Pakistan
Following accusations of ignoring the use of child labor in its 35% owned joint venture unit in Pakistan, the Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer has signed a partnership with the ILO to eliminate...
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23 April 2015
How digital campaigning could influence businesses’ social practices
Last February, Italian clothing brand Benetton agreed to contribute to a compensation fund for victims of the Rana Plaza disaster (c.f. article No. 8912). This last minute turnaround by the...
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13 April 2015
United States : Microsoft raises the bar for contract workers
Microsoft has decided to impose mandatory vacation and sick paid leaves for its contractors employees.
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27 March 2015
India: the trade union IndustriAll Global Union attacks Sumangali practice, the exploitation of young Indian girls in the textile industry
The Tamil word Sumangali means “happily married woman”. The word is, however, used to designate a form of labour exploitation, that of young women from rural areas, usually adolescents. These...
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25 March 2015
France: rights group Sherpa and the CGT accuse Vinci of forced labour in Qatar
On 23 March, the NGO Sherpa with the building federation of the CGT claimed that Vinci Construction, and those running its branch in Qatar (QDVC), has used forced labour on the construction sites...
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24 March 2015
Lawsuit filed in Germany against the country’s largest discount clothing retailer KiK for damages and interest after a factory fire in Pakistan
A Pakistani worker and the families of some of the victims lost in a manufacturing factory fire in Pakistan in 2012 have been assisted by several union and human rights organizations in a...
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18 March 2015
Germany to promote “sustainable supply chains” and decent work during G7 Presidency
Two years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,000 Bangladeshi workers in the clothing industry, the German government has decided to focus on sustainable...
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16 March 2015
Corporate practices: Danish companies Novo Nordisk and Novozymes implement policies to raise female participation at senior management
On March 08, International Women’s Day, the daily publication Berlingke Tidende examined the steps being taken by both Novo Nordisk and Novozymes* to bring more females into management...
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13 March 2015
Elgiganten: the Scandinavian electronics chain obliges its transporters to comply with Scandinavian collective agreements
Elgiganten, a leader in the Swedish electronics market has concluded an agreement with 10 Nordic transport companies that carry their goods and it obliges the transport company drivers to be...
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25 February 2015
Benetton: Italian brand commits to compensating Rana Plaza victims, under pressure from an online petition launched by Avaaz, signed by one million people
On Friday 20 February, Benetton announced its intention to contribute to the Rana Plaza victims’ compensation fund. The Italian company is the last — of those operating on the premises — to make...
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23 February 2015
Great Britain: #NotJustForBoys encourages women to embrace any type of career
Encouraging women to consign profession-based stereotypes to history: That's the objective of the new campaign launched by the Cameron administration and spread via Twitter, enjoying unprecedented...
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19 February 2015
France: a new bill on the duty of care by multinational companies now goes to parliament
The socialist group in the National Assembly has tabled a new bill on parent companies’ and contractors’ duty of care that is to be examined at the end of March. The Ministry of the Economy and...
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16 February 2015
A group of legal experts contribute to elaborating a set of binding international norms over business activities and human rights as part of UN action on the issue
Together, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) have announced a network of legal experts tasked...
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9 February 2015
United States: Nissan rejects mediation attempts over floundering unionization efforts, at its Mississippi plant, stemming from OECD social responsibility guidelines for multinationals.
Nissan North America has declined a US State department invitation to participate in voluntary mediation proceedings in order to resolve a long running row over worker unionization at one of its...
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4 February 2015
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025