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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

4 February 2015

France: the complaint filed by French NGOs against Auchan for misleading commercial practices, following the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, has been dismissed

At the end of January, the prosecutor’s office in Lille dismissed the complaint lodged against Auchan (French supermarket chain) for non-respect of its ethical commitments in the Rana Plaza...

29 January 2015

Germany: religion in the workplace in the aftermath of the Pegida movement

Regardless of the future that the anti-islam movement Pegida might have, it has instigated a major debate in Germany with regard to the opportunities and the issues around immigration, the place...

22 January 2015

Great Britain: Tesco and the Community Union reach supply chain conditions agreement

The major supermarket chain, Tesco, and the Community union have signed what the union calls ‘a ground breaking partnership agreement to improve conditions in the UK garment supply chain’.

8 January 2015

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