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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...

6 March 2012

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

Denmark: large businesses and government are banking on CSR

The Commerce and Companies Agency (Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen) recently published an analysis on the impact of the “årsregnskabslov,” the law of December 16, 2008 which forces large businesses...

12 December 2011

Companies: six telecom multinationals launch human rights initiative

g in telephony met to work together on Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility. These businesses are Teliasonera, Telenor, Vodafone, Telefonica, Nokia Siemens and Alcatel. Ewa...

23 November 2011

Corporate practices: how the Rudus construction materials manufacturer managed to significantly cut the number of industrial accidents on its production sites

uction company which employs about 1,300 people. It produces concrete, coated macadam and asphalt and operates in Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia. Bought, in 1999, by Irish multinational...

21 November 2011

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