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 be quickly put on the Parliament’s order of the day. This bill – an answer to the tragedy – aims to introduce joint liability between parent companies and contractors in the event of human rights violations or environmental disasters committed by their subsidiaries and subcontractors, via a best efforts obligation in terms of prevention of these damages. Some MPs, union officials, NGO representatives and lawyers are mobilizing so that this provision can be quickly put on the Parliament’s order of the day.
This bill, presented in November 2013 by 3 socialist and green MPs, is backed by the 4 left-wing Parliamentary groups, by 4 trade unions (CGT, CFTC, FO and CFE-CGC), and by several NGOs gathered within the Citizens’ CSR Forum. However, businesses do not welcome it.
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