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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

Swiss post presents positive assessment of commitment for “fair” work clothes

La Poste Suisse was the first large company in Switzerland to commit to the Fair Wear Foundation in 2012. Since last year, all its clothing purchases, i.e. about 300,000 pieces a year, are...

6 March 2014

World Cup 2022: Qatar must do better

Qatar announced the introduction of protection standards for foreign workers operating on construction sites for the soccer world cup in 2022. But the International Trade Union Confederation says...

14 February 2014

Lloyds Group wants to have 40 percent of senior roles filled by women

By 2020, Lloyds Banking Group wants to have 40 percent of senior roles filled by women. It’s the first time such a big company sets out such a big target. The Cameron administration is hoping that...

6 February 2014

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