Spain: interview of José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, Federal secretary at Comfia-CCOO, the financial services federation, about his organization’s CSR and SRI actions
representative for Comfia-CCOO, the union federations of financial and administrative services of the Workers’ Commissions union, is telling Planet Labor about corporate social...
11 May 2012
Denmark: government presents 2012-2015 plan promoting CSR
“The government is expecting Danish businesses to act responsibly here and on the global market.  First, it is the right thing to do, and second it brings about new growth opportunities.”  This is...
28 March 2012
Lafarge: in Indonesia, management and BWI international union federation extend the framework agreement to subcontractors
Joint platform.  This platform, composed of employee and management representatives, will meet once a year to discuss working conditions on the Banda Aceh site.  The BWI says this is a first step...
Great Britain: the organizers of the 2012 Olympics twice as watchful on the working conditions of Chinese employees involved in the production of merchandizing
Workers exploited.  The Trades Union Congress and the Labor Behind the Label Federation (which protects textile workers) published a crushing report on the way workers are treated in two Chinese...
28 February 2012
Henkel: the German group banks on a work culture focused on performance, not the time spent in the office
An old tradition.  The group, which employs nearly 48,000 people in 125 countries, has been committed to families since… 1940! In the middle of the war, the company created its first corporate...
17 February 2012
United States: Apple still under pressure because of working conditions at its Chinese suppliers
Even though Apple’s last report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among its suppliers, which includes a very thorough list of the said companies, was of unprecedented clarity for the...
16 February 2012
Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers
Tolerance: a duty and a need.  With 12,000 employees from 71 different countries and 56 million passengers from all over the world, Fraport, which runs Frankfurt Airport, the third busiest airport...
23 January 2012
United States: the electronic industry is increasingly concerned with the corporate social responsibility of its suppliers
and environmental responsibility within its suppliers is making a clear break. Published on Friday, the document, which contains a quasi-thorough list of these businesses, reports that the number...
17 January 2012
Corporate practices: Thales helps its employees change trades with the “Passerelles” approach
Employment expertise has been a part of Thales’ social practices for several years now.  In 2006, the social partners adopted an agreement on the anticipation of employment changes, professional...
15 December 2011
Corporate practices: secrets behind Scania’s ‘perfect’ age pyramid
Currently, Scania Group is one of the leaders in the manufacture of heavyweights, buses, vans, as well as industrial and marine engines.  It also offers and sells a wide range of maintenance...
12 December 2011
Denmark: large businesses and government are banking on CSR
The Commerce and Companies Agency (Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen) recently published an analysis on the impact of the “årsregnskabslov,” the law of December 16, 2008 which forces large businesses...
12 December 2011
Corporate practices: how the Rudus construction materials manufacturer managed to significantly cut the number of industrial accidents on its production sites
uction company which employs about 1,300 people. It produces concrete, coated macadam and asphalt and operates in Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia. Bought, in 1999, by Irish multinational...
21 November 2011
EU: interview of Nicole Notat, President of Vigeo, the European CSR rating agency, about the European Commission’s communication on Corporate Social Responsibility
lanet Labor, Nicole Notat, President of Vigeo, the European CSR rating agency, is giving us her reading of the communication adopted by the European Commission on Corporate Social Responsibility...
Italy: Telecom Italia launches experimental technical retraining program for women
ched an experimental schedule for the vocational training of 60 female employees in Rome, Milan and Turin, to help them get the qualification of Computing and Telecom Expert (Perito tecnico in...
8 November 2011
Skanska: the Swedish construction firm organized a Safety Week on all its sites in the world on October 17-23
he company organized, for its 52,000 employees worldwide, a Skanska Safety Week. This year, it was called “empowerment” and aimed to give employees a sense of responsibility to all the...
1 November 2011
Corporate practices: how the SICK AG sensor producer managed to reduce stress and noise in its offices
Keeping employees healthy.  Special award in 2005 for its ‘lifelong learning’ concept, award for its measures in favor of senior workers in 2006 and 2008, award for its equal opportunities policy...
28 October 2011
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