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Focused on giving value to diversity among its employees, from women to immigrants, to seniors and disabled people, not to mention training for long-term jobseekers, as well as traumatized...

27 May 2010

Russia: corporate social responsibility in times of a crisis

Russian-style CSR. The 2004 “Social Charter” defines CSR via effective business and management, the creation of decent job, compliance with fiscal and social laws, without excluding investments...

26 May 2010

OECD: towards an update of guidelines for multinational companies

Global context. After a major consultation, the Member States agreed on a mandate to improve the OECD’s guidelines aimed to promote responsible entrepreneurial behaviors across the world. The...

10 May 2010

International: UN report prepares the ground for an international strategy on businesses and human rights

“Protect, respect and remedy” is based on three independent principles: the State’s duty to prevent human rights abuses committed by third parties, notably businesses; their responsibility to...

5 May 2010

Corporate Practices: Investor AB to promote women’s careers at all levels, including boards

Pro-active policy to recruit women. “This is a key issue. Something must be done to improve, in the end, the number of female leaders” declared Investor AB’s VP, Börje Ekholm, in 2006. This...

27 April 2010

Lidl: the German discounter was sentenced for wrongly pretending that its foreign subcontractors respected “fair trade rules”

After making tongues wag because of its “antiunion” policy and because it spied on its employees, the German discounter is trying to restore its image among its clientele. Against all odds, it...

23 April 2010

Netherlands: fines in the offing for businesses appealing to child labor

At the request of the small Christian orthodox party, Christen Unie, sanctions against businesses appealing to child labor are going to be tougher. It is no longer simply a question of withdrawing...

22 March 2010

Deutsche Telekom: the German telephone operator introduced a 30% quota of women for its worldwide management

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

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On 24 February, two months after the European Parliament, the Council of the EU adopted the omnibus package amending the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate...

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Germany: a corporate group supports local political engagement via its “Democracy Charter”

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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