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dal has assumed unexpected proportions. The biggest German technology group acknowledged on November 8, 2007 having discovered in its accounts suspicious transactions amounting to 1.3 billion...

12 November 2007

EU: Commission to postpone the deadline for introducing directive on workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields

Following scientific analysis highlighting the negative effects that could have some prescriptions, too strict, of Directive 2004/40/EC regarding the protection against electromagnetic fields and...

30 October 2007

Italy: CGIL started talks on internal divisions after the referendum on the social protocol

The union's management accepted, on October 23, to launch a reflection on the results of the referendum on the social protocol which split the Cgil (see our article No. 070747). Some people...

26 October 2007

Great Britain: the union TUC launched a website to inform Polish workers of their rights

The trade union confederation TUC - along with the Polish union Solidarnosc and the British public information service Citizens Advice- launched, on October 25, a website for Polish people...

25 October 2007

Netherlands: frozen stock options for managers selling their company

The Dutch parliament decided, on October 17, 2007, to freeze the stock options and social shares belonging to managers of companies listed on the stock market as soon as they become the target of...

18 October 2007

Poland: campaign to certify worker friendly companies

The Solidarnosc union launched, on October 15, a national campaign to certify companies favourable to workers, a sort of label granted to companies which respect workers' rights. The action is...

15 October 2007

EU: unions from the cement sector ask for an efficient enforcement of international framework agreements

During the first world conference on cement, organized on June 22 and 23, 2007 in Portugal by three trade union federations (the European Federation of Building and Wood Workers - EFBWW, the...

9 July 2007

Inditex: the textile group wants to assume its global corporate social responsibility

Inditex is taking seriously its role of global company and its social responsibility policy. The textile group, which owns Zara and which recently intervened in favour of the defense of employees'...

4 July 2007

Germany: the corporate governance code limited to two years the period to calculate the benefits paid to managers

Gathered on June 14, 2007, the governmental commission on good governance adopted several measures, including the limitation of executives' retirement benefits, the appointment modalities for the...

22 June 2007

Thomson: free share handing out to the group’s employees

The French group Thomson decided, on June 21, 2007, to carry out a free distribution of shares in favour of all of Thomson's employees on June 1, 2007, as well as employees from its involved...

22 June 2007

Nike: the international trade union federation of textile is showing the American company’s CSR report as an example

According to the international trade union federation representing textile, garment and leather workers (ITGLWF), "Nike's CSR report is announcing a new role for social audit". In this report, the...

12 June 2007

Inditex: the Spanish textile group intervened to guarantee union rights at a Cambodian supplier.

The Spanish textile group Inditex intervened to defend union rights at a Cambodian supplier, notified the Spanish textile federation, Fiteqa-CCOO. The conflict had burst out several months ago...

11 June 2007

Groupama: a social reporting at the European level was launched

Members of the European works council received, during the March 28, 2007 plenary meeting, "a first glance of the organization of the European subsidiaries regarding a certain number of social...

30 May 2007

Belgium: the management is insisting on the voluntary dimension of CSR

The Belgian employers' federation (FEB) presented an enquiry on social responsibility carried out among 250 Belgian companies. According to the federation, 'CSR is a custom-made work and a...

8 May 2007

United Kingdom: an NGO denounced the absence of respect and controls of the ethical charters adopted as part of the Ethical Trade Initiative

The ethical charters signed by the British supermarkets in favour of a trade based on solidarity and responsible with their suppliers from developing countries are only covers to appear honorable...

25 April 2007

Vinci : launching of a discrimination and equal opportunity audit

The French construction and concession group Vinci launched an audit on its commitments in terms of discrimination and equality of chances. This is a yearly exercise which was entrusted to an...

17 April 2007

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