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“Actions on health and the working environment were initiated as a key element in our new strategy to improve basic profits as well as client and employee satisfaction” Keld Thornæs, associate...

29 November 2012

Germany: researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute analyze the issue of female promotion in businesses in light of four typical corporate cultures

According to the qualitative study presented at the end of October by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), there is a major link between corporate culture and the...

26 November 2012

Deutsche Post-DHL: unions lodge an appeal for violation of the OECD’s guidelines on multinational enterprises

On November 21, the UNI (services) and ITF (transport) international union federations brought a case to the German government alleging that company had committed a series of labor violations...

22 November 2012

Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices

Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...

19 November 2012

International: Adidas wants to create assistance fund for textile workers in Asia with sports equipment manufacturers

Continuous critic over the working conditions at the subcontractors working for big textile firms, notably in Bangladesh and Indonesia, has caused Adidas, the German company and second largest...

16 October 2012

Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present

120 female employees from Brazil, Philippines, Spain and Venezuela are currently taking part in “Women and leadership”. They share a common feature. All of them are executives or pre- executives...

15 October 2012

Italy: Eni signs an agreement with the social partners and the Basilicate region for the “site convention” of the peninsula’s key oil extraction center

Promoting initiatives in the sector. Eni commits itself to carry on investing in the region, notably by doing the 5th gas processing station at the Centro Olio Val d’Agri (COVA) center, and 9...

10 October 2012

France: government invites businesses to boost CSR dynamic

In its roadmap on the green transition, an extension of the environmental conference, the government encourages listed and non-listed businesses to take CSR initiatives.

24 September 2012

Spain: beyond statutory requirements, businesses take innovative equal opportunity measures

Reminder. Spain adopted this law (see our dispatch No. 070315) drawing upon two European directives (2002/173 and 2004/113) on equal opportunities. As a general rule, large companies (250...

24 September 2012

Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...

13 September 2012

Carlsberg: LO union and the company sign cooperation agreement to improve the conditions of beer developers in Cambodia

Indeed, since 2006, Carlsberg has been working with Cambrew, in partner in the Cambodian joint venture, and with NGOs such as Care International Cambodia – whose report on the conditions of beer...

29 August 2012

Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore

Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...

27 August 2012

Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices

Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...

23 August 2012

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...

27 June 2012

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...

11 May 2012

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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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