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Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... requires ethical principles and objectives and they have to live and die by those principles and entrench them in their workforce," she said. "It's just not about the standards and policies - its' about the enforcement of those principles and objectives." ...

Research project to study sustainable forestry in East Arnhem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Australians Agency (NIAA), Aboriginal land management organisations, Northern Territory government bodies and other Aboriginal workforce development organisations in the region. "The project has come out around after a number of years of activities," ...

Human capital management a signal of overall sustainability: Lazard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... regulatory and legislative responses to COVID-19 that impact on business operations. "How companies manage their full-time workforce as well as pay wages and benefits in these difficult times varies by industry," said Nikita Singhal, global co-head of ...

Can proposed EU recovery plan prove a sustainable model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Freedman said, with companies that are focused on resilience, decarbonisation, and the wellbeing of its community and workforce better poised to come out of the crisis. Freedman also pointed to the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities and the ways ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... construction, and commercial cleaning sectors have made no material disclosure about their labour hire and/or contracting workforce in annual reporting documents, according to research from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Berrutti said. "... We believe companies should be resilient, and built resilience into their balance sheet, business and workforce."

Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... business and social change, said Megan Motto, CEO of the Governance Institute. "We are seeing social progression in the workforce, and the move to working from home and increased use of digital technology," Motto said. "We will similarly learn lessons ...

Sustainability faces greatest test in response to coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... workers who have never had to work quite as remotely as they have now, often independently. Then consider that half the workforce in Australia are millennials, who often don't own their own home, living in house share situations, or with parents ...

Thinking about the future of work in the time of coronavirus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... alternatives to working face-to-face in a traditional office environment. In many cases this will involve enabling their workforce or team to work offsite, including from home or split between different offices and sites." The considerations and impact ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... capital markets." The social metrics aim to increase Indigenous employment levels across the Wesfarmers Group's Australian workforce through achieving proportional representation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. This would equate to ...