Spain: the national CSR Council to start working soon
The national CSR Council is launched. The tripartite structure, which should meet for the first time in November, is composed of 56 members. It equally involves public services, employers, unions...
12 November 2008
Spain: webpage to promote citizens’ active participation in CSR
The Spanish observatory of social responsibility (OBRSC) presented the Information Center for Corporate Practices, a tool used to control and expose socially "irresponsible" behaviors. (Ref...
10 November 2008
Denmark: the LO union published a manual on CSR for staff representatives
The demand for the social responsibility of all partners (customers, investors, colleagues...) is gaining ground in Denmark. Considering that unions have an important role to play in this context...
8 October 2008
Netherlands: the Frijns Commission wants to amend the code of good corporate behavior
The Frijns Commission, responsible for ensuring the respect of good corporate practices, is getting hot under the collar. In its annual report, presented on June 4, 2008 to the Minister of...
4 June 2008
Italy: the Sodalitas Social Award, a ‘barometer’ of the growing interest in corporate social responsibility
The Sodalitas Social Award was awarded on May 29 during the meeting entitled "Sustainability and social responsibility". Revealing Italian companies' growing interest for this field, this national...
4 June 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
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...
Spain: government and social partners signed a corporate social responsibility agreement
According to the agreement signed by the social dialogue follow-up commission, the government must create a CSR national committee, in which the most representative employers' and union...
7 January 2008
EU: Commission to postpone the deadline for introducing directive on workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields
Following scientific analysis highlighting the negative effects that could have some prescriptions, too strict, of Directive 2004/40/EC regarding the protection against electromagnetic fields and...
30 October 2007
Italy: CGIL started talks on internal divisions after the referendum on the social protocol
The union's management accepted, on October 23, to launch a reflection on the results of the referendum on the social protocol which split the Cgil (see our article No. 070747). Some people...
26 October 2007
Great Britain: the union TUC launched a website to inform Polish workers of their rights
The trade union confederation TUC - along with the Polish union Solidarnosc and the British public information service Citizens Advice- launched, on October 25, a website for Polish people...
25 October 2007
Poland: campaign to certify worker friendly companies
The Solidarnosc union launched, on October 15, a national campaign to certify companies favourable to workers, a sort of label granted to companies which respect workers' rights. The action is...
15 October 2007
Germany: the corporate governance code limited to two years the period to calculate the benefits paid to managers
Gathered on June 14, 2007, the governmental commission on good governance adopted several measures, including the limitation of executives' retirement benefits, the appointment modalities for the...
22 June 2007
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Belgium: social partners sign agreement on end-of-career schemes
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