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Under pressure from the works council at ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH (AMB), management and the council together have developed a ‘social charter’. It targets companies looking to sign service...

16 September 2014

International: work on the development of binding international standards for multinational enterprises and human rights to start in 2015

The resolution adopted on June 26 by the UN’s Human Rights Council provides for the introduction of an Intergovernmental Working Group in 2015 to negotiate legally binding instrument on...

4 July 2014

United States: Silicon Valley in a hurry to combat discrimination

50 years after the antidiscrimination laws that put an end to segregation passed, former civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has gotten internet giants such as Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo! or Facebook...

30 June 2014

Nordea: union representation bodies suspend participation in the bank’s CSR activities

The Danish banking union announced that the Nordea Union Board (NUB), which represents the members of banking unions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland and Finland, has left the CSR Stakeholder...

27 June 2014

H&M: the Swedish company, together with the IF Metall union and the ILO, is launching a project to develop collective bargaining within its Cambodian subcontractors

The project is carried by H&M, the clothing brand, IF Metall, the Swedish union, the Swedish government via its development and cooperation agency, and the ILO. After SKF and Atlas Corpo...

18 June 2014

Brazil: the fight against slave labor could become weaker after Congress adopts a 15-year-old text

On June 5, the Brazilian Congress promulgated constitutional amendment No. 81 on slave labor, which the Senate had unanimously voted a few days earlier. Shifted back and forth between the two...

11 June 2014

The question of social responsibility raised at the General Assembly of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom’s American subsidiary

The social responsibility issue is becoming key at T-Mobile USA. The company’s last general meeting showed that T-Mobile’s major investors agreed with the American unions, backing their efforts...

6 June 2014

Spain: listed businesses to set female representation objectives on their decision-making structures

The government approved, at a Council of Ministers meeting, the bill on the governance of listed companies. It provides for the obligation for these undertakings to set objectives to achieve...

26 May 2014

Nearly 14 million economic forced workers in the world, ILO says

Across the globe, the number of people doing forced labor, victims of sexual exploitation and of modern slavery is around 21 million, denounces a new report by the International Labor Organization...

20 May 2014

CSR: involving unions from multinationals’ home countries to defend workers’ rights among suppliers throughout the world – the example of Spanish unions and Inditex

For several years, international unions have been actively involved to get multinational companies to sign commitments regarding compliance with fundamental rights throughout the value chain...

8 May 2014

EU: European Commission launches public consultation on its new CSR strategy

Since the European strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will expire at the end of the year, the European Commission is launching a big public consultation to determine the political...

2 May 2014

Ireland: new National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility

This month, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, launched the National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility 2014-2016. Entitled “Good for Business, Good for the...

30 April 2014

Bangladesh: first anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building

On April 24, 2013, 1,135 employees died and more than 2,000 were injured in this tragedy. After it, the worst in the history of the textile industry, the sector’s stakeholders commenced many...

25 April 2014

France: mobilization for the introduction of duty of care for parent companies

A few days to the anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile plant in Bangladesh, mobilization is growing in France for the bill aiming to introduce a duty of care for parent company to...

17 April 2014

Tunisia: CONECT, the employers’ organization, launches a CSR label

On March 28, in Tunis, the 3rd international conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) took place on the following theme: “Public-private partnerships” (PPP), the vectors to develop...

11 April 2014

Bangladesh: first results of the plant inspections implemented as part of the Global Safety Accord among textile subcontractors

On March 10, the reports on the first 10 factories inspected in Bangladesh were published. These are the direct result from the agreement signed in May 2013 between international trade unions and...

12 March 2014

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