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Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) is the first company among the DAX – the Frankfurt stock market – to introduce a quota of women for its supervisory staff, in a country where public authorities have, so...

15 March 2010

Corporate practices: AstraZeneca’s policy for preventing illnesses and accidents banks on one-on-one coaching

The company’s motives. The department in charge of production for AstraZeneca in Sweden was worried about the increased number of accidents and occupational diseases on the sites. The problem was...

15 March 2010

Corporate practices: Pekkaniska, large Finnish lifting company, is paying employees to improve their health

Unions view the implementation of policies aimed to significantly improve quality of life at work as a necessary requirement for a possible agreement on the extension of careers. However, even...

10 March 2010

Netherlands: large chocolate producers and retailers commit, with FNV, in favor of “sustainable chocolate”

FNV and Allies general secretary Henk van der Kolk launched this unprecedented initiative, in the form of a “memorandum of understanding” (MoU). This document, which wants Dutch people to only...

5 March 2010

Companies: 5th Hewitt Associates report for the European Club for Human Resources shows gradual return to investment into human capital in 2010

Management of the crisis and post recession measures. Leonardo Sforza, head of EU affairs and research at Hewitt Associates and author of the study, thinks 2010 will be a transition year. He said...

4 March 2010

Netherlands: new bill on corporate social responsibility

The code on corporate social responsibility (MVO Code) should be introduced into businesses’ governance code established in 2004 by Morris Tabaksblat. While the Tabaksblat code, which only applies...

16 February 2010

Corporate practices: BMW launches the “Produktionsystem 2017” project, assembly lines adapted to demographic ageing

All manufacturing firms on the old continent are now wondering the same thing: how can we keep improving production rhythm and quality with experienced but ageing workers? Bavarian carmaker BMW...

11 February 2010

Deutsche Bank: banking group to increase the fixed wages of all its employees throughout the world

Administer the law while remaining competitive. Without confirming the figures given by the daily, a DB spokesman explained that the bank was currently revising its remuneration system and...

22 January 2010

EU: report points to energy EWCs’ poor participation in CSR policies

ed out by the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and the Social Development Agency (SDA) entitled “Learning and EWC practices in the European Energy Sector,” a study...

5 January 2010

United States: under pressure from American students, Russell Athletic reopens a factory in Honduras, closed because of the unionization of the workers

The US group Russell Athletic, a sports apparel maker, has decided to reopen its factory in Honduras following a several months’ boycott of its clothes, which was orchestrated by the students...

23 November 2009

Portugal: outsourcing sector signs code of conduct

Competence, transparency and better working conditions. The signatories accepted to only commit for service contracts for which they are directly competent. They also adopted a confidentiality...

14 October 2009

Daimler: official launching of Gl@d, the network of gay employees of the German carmaker

40 employees create GL@D against discrimination. Johanna Kosler and Jorg Sikorski, employees at Daimler, initiated the Gl@d network with the support of the Diversity Management department. In a...

29 September 2009

Business: is teleworking bad for productivity?

technologies, remote work and networks increasingly influence labor organization, Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented his...

7 July 2009

Google: search engine follows HR to fight against “brain drain”

or user of highly-skilled workers, brain hunt is a daily sport, sometimes dangerous for the businesses affected. To limit the risks of loosing in creativity and competitiveness in the long run...

2 July 2009

Metro Group: German giant assumes social responsibility for the employees of RL. Denim, Bengali subcontractor

eard of international coalition composed of NGOs and unions from Germany, the UK and the US, the Metro supply group decided to reintegrate the Bengali jean manufacturer which was excluded after a...

29 June 2009

Denmark: after revelations from the Danish TV, the Nordea bank promises a more ethical portfolio of investments

estments by pension funds (see our dispatch No. 080175), a program aired on June 2, 2009 denounces investments by three large Danish banks, notably in weapons. Nordea officially gave up...

24 June 2009

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