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American retail brands come up with their own safety plan for textile subcontractors in Bangladesh
Walmart, Gap and a few other companies have decided to design their own program to monitor their subcontractors in Bangladesh. Indeed, they’ve refused to sign the global agreement on building...
SAP wants to hire hundreds of autistic employees around the world to spark innovation
After several successful pilot projects in India and Ireland, SAP, the German business-management software maker, announced on May 21 that, in the years to come, it would hire hundreds of people...
Unions keep lobbying Gap and Walmart into signing the global agreement on occupational safety in textile plants in Bangladesh
As of Thursday morning, May 16, 31 companies had signed up to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh which was drafted by IndustriALL and UNI Global and supported by a coalition of...
After two years of lobbying, Adidas agrees to pay compensation to the formers workers of its Indonesian subcontractor, PT Kizone
According to the Clean Clothes Campaign organization, Indonesian unions have won a “monumental victory” against the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world – Adidas. After refusing...
CSR: Mango, the textile group, redefines social responsibility policy after a building in Bangladesh collapsed where there was a clothing workshop allegedly involved with western businesses
In the Rana Plaza commercial complex which collapsed on April 24 around Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing nearly 400 people, there was a clothing workshop that allegedly works with the Spanish textile...
Corporate practices: Repsol attracts and retains people with “different abilities” beyond statutory requirements
For Repsol, the highly accomplished global energy company, referring to people with "different abilities" is not a way to elude the word "disability". There is no question that every single person...
Corporate practices: staff wellbeing at the center of the economic strategy implemented by Lån & Spar Bank A/S bank
“Actions on health and the working environment were initiated as a key element in our new strategy to improve basic profits as well as client and employee satisfaction” Keld Thornæs, associate...
29 November 2012
Germany: researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute analyze the issue of female promotion in businesses in light of four typical corporate cultures
According to the qualitative study presented at the end of October by the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), there is a major link between corporate culture and the...
Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices
Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...
19 November 2012
Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present
120 female employees from Brazil, Philippines, Spain and Venezuela are currently taking part in “Women and leadership”. They share a common feature. All of them are executives or pre- executives...
15 October 2012
Italy: Eni signs an agreement with the social partners and the Basilicate region for the “site convention” of the peninsula’s key oil extraction center
Promoting initiatives in the sector. Eni commits itself to carry on investing in the region, notably by doing the 5th gas processing station at the Centro Olio Val d’Agri (COVA) center, and 9...
France: government invites businesses to boost CSR dynamic
In its roadmap on the green transition, an extension of the environmental conference, the government encourages listed and non-listed businesses to take CSR initiatives.
Spain: beyond statutory requirements, businesses take innovative equal opportunity measures
Reminder. Spain adopted this law (see our dispatch No. 070315) drawing upon two European directives (2002/173 and 2004/113) on equal opportunities. As a general rule, large companies (250...
24 September 2012
Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...
13 September 2012
Carlsberg: LO union and the company sign cooperation agreement to improve the conditions of beer developers in Cambodia
Indeed, since 2006, Carlsberg has been working with Cambrew, in partner in the Cambodian joint venture, and with NGOs such as Care International Cambodia – whose report on the conditions of beer...
Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore
Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...
27 August 2012
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
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5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
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France: Yves Rocher convicted of breach of duty of vigilance for infringement of freedom of association
The specialised chamber of the Paris Judicial Court convicted Yves Rocher on 12 March for breaching its duty of vigilance. The group was sued by Turkish employees dismissed in 2018 by a subsidiary...
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12 March 2026
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2026 TRENDS – CSR: A strategic asset for European companies?
mind HR is looking ahead at the trends set to shape 2026. Sustainability policy remains in flux after a year of CSR rollbacks across Europe. Companies are calling for greater predictability and...
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EU: Council approves omnibus directive on sustainability
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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24 February 2026
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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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United States: Coca-Cola subsidiary sued by the administration over women-only event
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on 18 February that it is launching federal proceedings against Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast for “sex-based...
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6 March 2026
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EU: Council adopts position on simplifying AI rules
The Council of the EU approved its position on 13 March regarding the “omnibus regulation” proposal, published last November by the Commission to simplify the AI Act. Confirming the...
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20 March 2026