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Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... of coal mining on a range of issues from mine rehabilitation to water assessments, long term health impacts to local employment and skills training. Earlier this year, the New South Wales Minerals Council (NSWMC) commissioned a stakeholder survey to ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... reported improved performance from management across areas including working relationships, balancing work, diversity and employment brand. Service excellence was identified as an area of development and will be a focus for the 2012 financial year. Overall ...

Skilled labour shortage potentially increases corporate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... increasingly difficult to fill skilled positions in professional and technical fields and this is increasing their focus on employment attraction and retention strategies," Regnan said in the report. "The human capital management (HCM) analysis indicates ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... should inform the board of their external commitments that might impact their ability to fulfil their responsibilities- employment as well as directorships of other profit and not-for-profit organisations. ACSI says in the guidelines that "In general ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... while domestic commercial transport industries are subject to the tax. Treasury estimates industries that are 90% of employment account for less than 10% of carbon emissions. To compensate for the impact of price rises that will inevitably stem from ...

PUMA's environmental P&L reporting: a model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... doing that first. I am very intrigued about how they are going to tackle the second and third stages. In terms of the employment-related figures, they're easy to get values. But the wider social impacts they're talking about - they'll be challenging. ...

Majority of ASX100 report on ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... emissions intensity in the industrial portfolio. For OZ Minerals, the report named the company's award-winning indigenous employment training program via which 51 local and indigenous trainees have gained employment at Prominent Hill, and a high rate ...

Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... have drafted a set of reporting principles so that financial services companies can benchmark, measure and address the employment gender divide. The draft principles (see below) would establish a common framework developed in response to a lack of "meaningful" ...

NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... Coal, Peabody Energy Australia, Vale Australia - Integra Coal Operations, and Xstrata Coal. Dust and air quality and employment opportunities and development were the two most frequently mentioned topics of concern in The Upper Hunting Mining Dialogue ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... stakeholders to get a guide of what the risks and issues are." Going forward, the company has set diversity goals in employment that would see women make up 20 per cent of senior management by 2015 and 40 per cent of 2015 graduate intake. Women made ...