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The French group Lafarge (90.000 employees), world leader in construction materials, will organize, in June, a "safety month" in 76 countries where the group is present. At every site, "one or...

3 June 2008

Corporate practices : the German group Henkel boosts and internationalizes its corporate diversity management policy

Henkel illustrates the human diversity policy of the group at its site in Vienna. There, the firm has set up its headquarters for Austria and the east European countries. 10.000 people of 33...

2 June 2008

International: trade union guide on GRI guidelines to prepare sustainability reports

During a conference in Amsterdam on May 7 and 8, organized by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Guy Rider, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) presented a...

19 May 2008

Corporate Practices : R8 “Silver Line” project and “Demographic concept” at Audi

In 2006, 54.44% of Audi's staff was older than 39 and 16.98% over 50. In 2012, 1/3 of employees in the production division will be older than 50. At the same time, retirement age was brought up to...

29 April 2008

Corporate practices: seniors’ employment in the Swedish company Scania

2007 was a record year in terms of sales for the group Scania, one of the jewels of the Swedish industry (84.5 million Swedish crowns, i.e. almost 9 million euro in sales). After Neste Oil (see...

29 April 2008

Netherlands: large groups commit in the suburbs

The Hague's Municipality organized a special "participation" summit, during which several large groups committed to invest in four suburbs around the city, Transvaal, Schilderswijk, ZuidWest and...

24 April 2008

Vinci: evaluation of the diversity audit carried out in six EU countries

The French group Vinci, world leader in construction, had the social rating company Vigeo audit its policy of diversity and equal opportunities (see our article No. 070353). An internal document...

22 April 2008

Denmark : increasing implementation of the concept of corporate social responsibility

insurance company Skandia on ten years of CSR shows that social commitments of companies have the collateral effect that employees are proud of their job, find the work environment attractive and...

7 April 2008

Corporate pratices : gender equality in the Finnish Neste Oil Company

Neste Oil, an oil company listed on the stock market which made more than €12 billion in sales in 2007, is the first Finnish private company to win the equality prize, awarded every year to a...

26 March 2008

Corporate practices: Alboy’s plan for seniors

The Finnish company Alboy is a subsidiary of the group ASSA Alboy, the world leader in the locksmith's trade. The main factory employs 840 people and makes mechanical locks. It is on this plant...

21 March 2008

Great Britain: more companies train their workers on ethics codes

According to a study carried out by the Institute of Business Ethics, 71% of the 350 companies listed on the stock market train their employees in the subject of business ethics, instead of 47% in...

12 March 2008

Great Britain: private equity bill fails in Parliament

At its second reading in Parliament on March 7, the bill presented by the Labor MP John Heppell which aims at extending to investment funds the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)...

10 March 2008

Denmark: unions revive the issue of ethical investment by pension funds

The two union confederations LO and FTF are ready to amend the guidelines of the policy of the mandatory ATP (Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension - supplementary pension investment fund) after what...

27 February 2008

Spain : the fashion sector mobilizes to promote the corporate social responsibility

Specific measures for small firms. The participants also recalled that CSR policies are a necessity not only in third countries but also in Spain and Portugal where a host of small workshops...

20 February 2008

EU: ETNO and UNI Telecom adopt a statement on social responsibility

During the last sectoral social dialogue committee which took place on December 4, 2007 in Warsaw, European social partners in the telecommunications sector, the ETNO for employers and the UNI...

12 February 2008

Luxembourg: employers commit to corporate social responsibility

The union of Luxembourg enterprises (UEL), the Grand Duchy's employers' organization, decided to promote a "true sustainable development culture" with the creation of the "National Institute for...

25 January 2008

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