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Germany: the federal government has for the second time awarded the ‘Corporate Social Responsibility Prize’
On Wednesday September 17, 2014 four German companies including the Otto group (in the category of ‘a company with more than 5000 employees’) and the soft packaging company Bischof + Klein GmbH...
Germany: ArcelorMittal Bremen management requires that companies contracted to provide services adhere to the social charter negotiated with the works council
Under pressure from the works council at ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH (AMB), management and the council together have developed a ‘social charter’. It targets companies looking to sign service...
United States: Silicon Valley in a hurry to combat discrimination
50 years after the antidiscrimination laws that put an end to segregation passed, former civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has gotten internet giants such as Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo! or Facebook...
Nordea: union representation bodies suspend participation in the bank’s CSR activities
The Danish banking union announced that the Nordea Union Board (NUB), which represents the members of banking unions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland and Finland, has left the CSR Stakeholder...
H&M: the Swedish company, together with the IF Metall union and the ILO, is launching a project to develop collective bargaining within its Cambodian subcontractors
The project is carried by H&M, the clothing brand, IF Metall, the Swedish union, the Swedish government via its development and cooperation agency, and the ILO. After SKF and Atlas Corpo...
Brazil: the fight against slave labor could become weaker after Congress adopts a 15-year-old text
On June 5, the Brazilian Congress promulgated constitutional amendment No. 81 on slave labor, which the Senate had unanimously voted a few days earlier. Shifted back and forth between the two...
The question of social responsibility raised at the General Assembly of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom’s American subsidiary
The social responsibility issue is becoming key at T-Mobile USA. The company’s last general meeting showed that T-Mobile’s major investors agreed with the American unions, backing their efforts...
Spain: listed businesses to set female representation objectives on their decision-making structures
The government approved, at a Council of Ministers meeting, the bill on the governance of listed companies. It provides for the obligation for these undertakings to set objectives to achieve...
Nearly 14 million economic forced workers in the world, ILO says
Across the globe, the number of people doing forced labor, victims of sexual exploitation and of modern slavery is around 21 million, denounces a new report by the International Labor Organization...
CSR: involving unions from multinationals’ home countries to defend workers’ rights among suppliers throughout the world – the example of Spanish unions and Inditex
For several years, international unions have been actively involved to get multinational companies to sign commitments regarding compliance with fundamental rights throughout the value chain...
EU: European Commission launches public consultation on its new CSR strategy
Since the European strategy on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will expire at the end of the year, the European Commission is launching a big public consultation to determine the political...
Ireland: new National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility
This month, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, launched the National Plan on Corporate Social Responsibility 2014-2016. Entitled “Good for Business, Good for the...
Bangladesh: first anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building
On April 24, 2013, 1,135 employees died and more than 2,000 were injured in this tragedy. After it, the worst in the history of the textile industry, the sector’s stakeholders commenced many...
France: mobilization for the introduction of duty of care for parent companies
A few days to the anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile plant in Bangladesh, mobilization is growing in France for the bill aiming to introduce a duty of care for parent company to...
Tunisia: CONECT, the employers’ organization, launches a CSR label
On March 28, in Tunis, the 3rd international conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) took place on the following theme: “Public-private partnerships” (PPP), the vectors to develop...
Bangladesh: first results of the plant inspections implemented as part of the Global Safety Accord among textile subcontractors
On March 10, the reports on the first 10 factories inspected in Bangladesh were published. These are the direct result from the agreement signed in May 2013 between international trade unions and...
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
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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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Living wage still struggles to align with social dialogue (study)
As part of its summer school on social dialogue, the ILO commissioned a study on the living wage. This concept, which takes workers' needs into account when determining wage levels and which major...
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EU: Commission to launch a business coalition against modern slavery
The news. On 16 October, the European Commission presented a new strategy to combat human trafficking. While labour exploitation reported by the authorities rose by 17% between 2021-2022 and...
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19 October 2026
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UK: government promises human rights due diligence bill
The news. On 4 November, the government promised, through Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds before the House of Lords, the statutory introduction of human rights due diligence in the UK. It...
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5 November 2026