CSR

The " Luxembourg Meeting on corporate social responsibility " took place on October 20th with the Minister of Employment and Work. It was the occasion to draw an assessment of the initiatives...

24 October 2006

Siemens creates a solidarity fund for BenQ Mobile employees

To counter growing criticisms, Siemens decided to create a solidarity fund for German employees of BenQ Mobile, threatened to lose their job. The fund would be endowed with 35 million euros. (Ref...

2 October 2006

Grundfos: attracting more women to management positions

The industrial pumps giant, which employs more than 14.000 employees in the world, is trying to open up management to women. (Ref. 06924)

20 September 2006

Axa announces a capital increase reserved for employees

The insurance group has informed today, September 19th, that it was going to undertake a capital increase reserved for its employees. This operation concerns 32 countries. (Ref 06916)

19 September 2006

McDonald’s launches «McPassport» to promote workers’ mobility

Upon request, the number one fast food chain in Europe will provide all employees with an "official certificate of professional competences". McDonald's wants to ease its employees' mobility...

14 September 2006

Europe-Asia summit : exchanges on the social dimension of globalization

The German Minister of Employment Franz Müntefering opened, on September 4th in Potsdam (Germany), the first conference of the Europe - Asia dialog (ASEM) on the social dimension of globalization...

6 September 2006

Finland: the legislation related to the CSR to be amended

Finland is about to amend the Social Enterprise Act, in force since 2004, supposed to solve the unemployment of people in difficulty but which appeared to be quite inefficient. (Ref. 06815)

24 August 2006

Tools : agreements on Corporate Social Responsability

We provide our subscribers with all our resources. They are in general related to joint files of our articles. However, to facilitate your research, we also publish "tool" articles gathering of...

4 August 2006

BNP Paribas: employees own 5% of the bank’s capital

55.800 employees of BNP Paribas in 71 countries subscribed to the increase in capital which was reserved for them, for a total amount of 282,5 million euros. Following this operation, employees...

31 July 2006

InBev accused of violating the guiding principles of OECD for global companies

The international Union of food, agriculture, hotel, restaurant and tobacco workers, and the related branches (IUF-UITA) has filed a complaint against the brewer at the OECD office in Belgium...

18 July 2006

Belgium: Wallonie equips itself with a resources centre on the CSR

Whereas Flanders is already equipped with a similar tool, Wallonie has just opened a resources centre on the RSE over the Internet. Accessible to both Small and Large-size enterprises, the site...

12 July 2006

Denmark: the employees of Dansk Supermarked want a real CSR policy

After the outcry caused by the broadcasting of a documentary on the working conditions within the chain's Indian suppliers, the employees of the supermarket group Dansk Supermarked are asking the...

1 July 2006

EADS postpones an employee shareholding operation

According to the Financial Times Deutschland (7-06), the European group of aircraft and defense EADS decided to postpone an employee shareholding operation which was to take place between 5 and 23...

7 June 2006

Zara: a case of child work revives the question of the respect of good behavior codes

Following the report published by the Portuguese weekly magazine, Expresso, on children in the north of Portugal who apparently work for one of the suppliers of the Inditex group, owner of Zara...

5 June 2006

Nestle: the European work’s council challenges management on one of its suppliers

After the intervention of the European work's council of Unilever last April (see enclosure), the European work's council of Nestle, wrote to management in order to express concern over the...

5 May 2006

Communication on CSR: interview of Anne Peeters

Following the communication of the European Commission on corporate social responsibility (see our article n°06247), Anne Peeters, deputy administrator of Cedac, an association for research on CSR...

12 April 2006

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