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lanet Labor, Nicole Notat, President of Vigeo, the European CSR rating agency, is giving us her reading of the communication adopted by the European Commission on Corporate Social Responsibility...

14 November 2011

Italy: Telecom Italia launches experimental technical retraining program for women

ched an experimental schedule for the vocational training of 60 female employees in Rome, Milan and Turin, to help them get the qualification of Computing and Telecom Expert (Perito tecnico in...

8 November 2011

Skanska: the Swedish construction firm organized a Safety Week on all its sites in the world on October 17-23

he company organized, for its 52,000 employees worldwide, a Skanska Safety Week. This year, it was called “empowerment” and aimed to give employees a sense of responsibility to all the...

1 November 2011

Corporate practices: how the SICK AG sensor producer managed to reduce stress and noise in its offices

Keeping employees healthy. Special award in 2005 for its ‘lifelong learning’ concept, award for its measures in favor of senior workers in 2006 and 2008, award for its equal opportunities policy...

28 October 2011

EU: CSR is back on the social agenda

New definition. The Commission starts with an updated definition and lists the actions it intends to take. Now, CSR means “the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society,” a much...

25 October 2011

Deutsche Bahn: German railway launches program at group level to increase the proportion of female employees

eutsche Bahn (DB) has set out clear objectives to increase the number of women in management over the next few years. And the railway company also concretely explained how it was going to do it...

19 October 2011

EU: European employers in favor of a voluntary code of conduct for ethics in business

Image. During this meeting, organized by the Employers’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (EECS) under the aegis of the Polish Presidency of the EU, employers’ representatives...

18 October 2011

Germany: large businesses to “noticeably” increase the proportion of women in management and give clear objectives for the first time ever

employment managers of the DAX 30 companies (German stock market) completely rejected the introduction of a statutory quota of women in management during a large summit on this theme held on...

18 October 2011

Denmark: first report on HR practices in multinationals in Denmark

HR policies. Most multinationals involved with the survey are European (46% Scandinavian) and 16% American. Two thirds claim they have an “International HR unit” with a cross-border coordination...

14 October 2011

Germany: Daimler introduces “pay curve” as part of its corporate social responsibility strategy

proximately 160,000 employees of the German auto group Daimler AG will be able, on a voluntary basis, to give the cents of their net salary away to fund public interest projects in Germany and...

28 September 2011

Brazil: authorities investigate the use of slavery in Zara’s workshops

bor and the San Paulo administration charged the Spanish clothing giant, Zara, with 52 infringements to labor standards after discovering, in mid-August, three clothing workshops belonging to the...

1 September 2011

Deutsche Telekom: unions file complaint with the OECD against Deutsche Telekom

Facts. The complaint concerns events that took place at T-Mobile USA and Crnogorski Telekom, Montenegro. In the first, unions denounce a union campaign organized by the management as early as...

13 July 2011

International: the UN adopts guidelines on businesses respecting Human Rights

Guidelines. Laid down in a report presented to the Human Rights Council last year (see our dispatch No. 100370), these new international standards follow three principles, “Protect, Respect and...

4 July 2011

OECD: guidelines for multinational enterprises updated

New context. Started in June 2010 (see our dispatch No. 100374), the negotiations to update the OECD’s guidelines truly started in October. In April, the representatives from 42 governments...

26 May 2011

International: unions accuse DHL of violating fundamental social rights

About 80 union representatives from the DHL, UPS, TNT, FedEx, DPD and Geopost companies from all over the world discussed, on Monday and Tuesday, the difficulties faced by the sector’s employees...

26 May 2011

Spain: Telefónica shareholder pension schemes demand more socially responsible corporate policy

A first. It’s the first time a Spanish pension fund has spoken this way, Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) wrote in a press release, pointing to the growing importance of socially responsible...

25 May 2011

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