France: CSR criteria in the new 2012-2014 profit-sharing agreement at La Poste
Quality of life.  Like the previous agreement, this agreement will apply to all Post workers regardless of their function, “thus giving full meaning to the concept of fair distribution and...
Corporate practices: ThyssenKrupp steel cuts working time to hire 1,000 apprentices and have younger manpower
Chain restructurings.  “Up to 2006, we were mostly concerned with one thing: how can we cut jobs?” explains Veit Echterhoff, in charge of training policy at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG.  And for...
25 June 2012
Deutsche Post DHL: UNI and ITF union federation intensify global campaign against the violation of workers’ rights by DHL
Lie detectors and bullying.  “Companies that do not embrace corporate responsibility as an integral part of their business model will not be as successful in the long run” declared Franck Appel on...
Spain: interview of José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, Federal secretary at Comfia-CCOO, the financial services federation, about his organization’s CSR and SRI actions
representative for Comfia-CCOO, the union federations of financial and administrative services of the Workers’ Commissions union, is telling Planet Labor about corporate social...
11 May 2012
United States: German personalities campaign against T-Mobile USA, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, accused of anti-union practices
On Wednesday, March 28, a group of German academics, lawyers, and union and political representatives published, in the New York Times, an open letter to “T-Mobile USA and other US subsidiaries of...
30 March 2012
Denmark: government presents 2012-2015 plan promoting CSR
“The government is expecting Danish businesses to act responsibly here and on the global market.  First, it is the right thing to do, and second it brings about new growth opportunities.”  This is...
28 March 2012
EU: the European Round Table of Industrialists, ERT, presents two initiatives promoting women with executive positions
Initiatives.  The ERT, a very old lobby in Brussels which gathers 45 CEOs from the largest companies in Europe, launched, on March 12, a database on which its members will post the resumes of...
9 March 2012
Lafarge: in Indonesia, management and BWI international union federation extend the framework agreement to subcontractors
Joint platform.  This platform, composed of employee and management representatives, will meet once a year to discuss working conditions on the Banda Aceh site.  The BWI says this is a first step...
Great Britain: the organizers of the 2012 Olympics twice as watchful on the working conditions of Chinese employees involved in the production of merchandizing
Workers exploited.  The Trades Union Congress and the Labor Behind the Label Federation (which protects textile workers) published a crushing report on the way workers are treated in two Chinese...
28 February 2012
Henkel: the German group banks on a work culture focused on performance, not the time spent in the office
An old tradition.  The group, which employs nearly 48,000 people in 125 countries, has been committed to families since… 1940! In the middle of the war, the company created its first corporate...
17 February 2012
United States: Apple still under pressure because of working conditions at its Chinese suppliers
Even though Apple’s last report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among its suppliers, which includes a very thorough list of the said companies, was of unprecedented clarity for the...
16 February 2012
Apple: China Labor Watch posts open letter to the CEO of Apple on Facebook
Apple is the first company in its sector to be open to the code and investigations of the Fair Labor Association (see our dispatch No.  120031).  With this letter, as an answer to the announcement...
6 February 2012
Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers
Tolerance: a duty and a need.  With 12,000 employees from 71 different countries and 56 million passengers from all over the world, Fraport, which runs Frankfurt Airport, the third busiest airport...
23 January 2012
United States: the electronic industry is increasingly concerned with the corporate social responsibility of its suppliers
and environmental responsibility within its suppliers is making a clear break. Published on Friday, the document, which contains a quasi-thorough list of these businesses, reports that the number...
17 January 2012
Corporate practices: Thales helps its employees change trades with the “Passerelles” approach
Employment expertise has been a part of Thales’ social practices for several years now.  In 2006, the social partners adopted an agreement on the anticipation of employment changes, professional...
15 December 2011
Corporate practices: secrets behind Scania’s ‘perfect’ age pyramid
Currently, Scania Group is one of the leaders in the manufacture of heavyweights, buses, vans, as well as industrial and marine engines.  It also offers and sells a wide range of maintenance...
12 December 2011
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