CSR

In June 2011, the United Nations adopted Guiding Principles (UNGP) on Business and Human Rights. Within the framework of its strategy to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR), the...

5 September 2013

Sustainable management practices: national answers to a global challenge?

The International Corporate Survey Barometer (ICSB) was published at the end of July 2013. This international sustainability barometer was introduced in 2012 by the Center for Sustainability...

4 September 2013

Corporate practices: Sweco, or how to attract and retain female engineers

Sweco, a group operating in engineering, environmental technology and architecture, is also the world leader in particle separation and size reduction. It employs around 7,400 people, 70 percent...

23 July 2013

Gap, Walmart and 15 other retailers unveil safety plan for textile workers in Bangladesh

Gap, Walmart and 15 other American retails took a month to improve their proposals on the safety of textile workers in Bangladesh, following the accident that took place in April, and they...

11 July 2013

European Union uses trade advantages as incentive to get the Bengali government to improve labor rights

The Rana Plaza tragedy, with a building collapsing near Daka killing nearly 1,100 employees working for textile subcontractors operating for European and American companies, is probably going to...

10 July 2013

American retail brands come up with their own safety plan for textile subcontractors in Bangladesh

Walmart, Gap and a few other companies have decided to design their own program to monitor their subcontractors in Bangladesh. Indeed, they’ve refused to sign the global agreement on building...

3 June 2013

SAP wants to hire hundreds of autistic employees around the world to spark innovation

After several successful pilot projects in India and Ireland, SAP, the German business-management software maker, announced on May 21 that, in the years to come, it would hire hundreds of people...

22 May 2013

Unions keep lobbying Gap and Walmart into signing the global agreement on occupational safety in textile plants in Bangladesh

As of Thursday morning, May 16, 31 companies had signed up to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh which was drafted by IndustriALL and UNI Global and supported by a coalition of...

21 May 2013

32 clothing brands and retailers sign agreement for safer textile suppliers in Bangladesh

On May 14, about 32 global brands signed an agreement to improve safety conditions in textile factories in Bangladesh. This initiative was launched by the IndustriAll and Uni global unions as...

15 May 2013

After two years of lobbying, Adidas agrees to pay compensation to the formers workers of its Indonesian subcontractor, PT Kizone

According to the Clean Clothes Campaign organization, Indonesian unions have won a “monumental victory” against the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world – Adidas. After refusing...

13 May 2013

Italy: Bastards and Poor’$, aka the anonymous initiative claiming to be the first rating agency for working conditions from the workers themselves

On May 1, anonymous activists launched the first “rating agency by workers and on work,” called Bastards and Poor’$, showing a clear bias. Via this rating agency coming from workers’ appraisals...

13 May 2013

CSR: in Italy, the national 2012-2014 action plan for Corporate Social Responsibility banks on rewards and transparent practices

Italy’s 2012-2014 action plan on CSR, released on April 16 by the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Economic Development, aims to spread a ‘multi-stakeholders’ approach, to set up ways of...

29 April 2013

CSR: Mango, the textile group, redefines social responsibility policy after a building in Bangladesh collapsed where there was a clothing workshop allegedly involved with western businesses

In the Rana Plaza commercial complex which collapsed on April 24 around Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing nearly 400 people, there was a clothing workshop that allegedly works with the Spanish textile...

29 April 2013

EU: businesses with 500+ employees have to publish their CSR policy

On Tuesday, April 16, the European Commission suggested enhancing the transparency obligation for large businesses as regards their social and diversity policies. It adopted a draft directive...

16 April 2013

Two associations press ‘fair washing’ charges against Samsung in French court

At the end of February, charges were pressed against the South-Korean company at the Court of Bobigny (Paris area) for “deceptive marketing practices.” The plaintiffs claim the company’s actions...

8 April 2013

Corporate practices: Repsol attracts and retains people with “different abilities” beyond statutory requirements

For Repsol, the highly accomplished global energy company, referring to people with "different abilities" is not a way to elude the word "disability". There is no question that every single person...

21 March 2013

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On 24 February, two months after the European Parliament, the Council of the EU adopted the omnibus package amending the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate...

24 February 2026

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Large corporations in the Hesse region, surrounding Frankfurt, are defending local democracy by enabling employees to volunteer in local public life through an initiative dubbed the "Democracy...

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