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Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... signatories. The survey probed corporate action against the ten principles of the which cover activities in human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Companies are "moving from good intentions to significant actions," the organisation ...

LGS joins Investor Statement on Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Bangladesh, joining more than 190 shareholders and investors which are calling on brands and retailers to implement the core labour standard of the International Labor Organisation (ILO). Bill Hartnett The statement comes as a response to the series ...

LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... fund's marketing budget, and is in line with the fund's trade-union roots, said Greg Sword, LUCRF CEO. LUCRF Super - the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund - was founded in 1978 by the Storeman and Packers Union. "The fundamental values of the ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... cited engagement around anti-corruption and compliance, and the recent publication of the third ACSI research paper into labour and human rights supply chain policies in ASX-listed consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies. This evolution ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... than a third of Australian consumer staples and consumer discretionary companies have a publicly disclosed supply chain labour and human rights (LHR) policy, and none of them have board oversight of LHR issues, according to research from the Australian ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... and these topics but I would like to add one very important factor and that is CSR - that means social aspects, of core labour standards, the environment, all this package of necessities, in order to have a natural resource strategy that really drives ...

GRI, UN Global Compact renew partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... have a long-standing collaboration that has resulted in the Global Compact's 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption being fully aligned with the newly launched G4 GRI sustainability standards. "The UN ...

Global Reporting Initiative launches new G4 guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... GRI organised working groups around the world, comprising 120 specialists from constituencies including field experts, labour, business and civil society. There were two public consultation periods in 2011 and 2012, generating a total of more than 2,500 ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... than Chinese factories, employ more supervisors per employee and have higher fixed costs. The report weighed the lower labour costs of Bangladeshi factories against the fact that a minimum wage that doesn't cover living expenses is unsustainable, and ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... scanning product barcodes to see if its manufacture (or indeed manufacturer) has employed such modern day evils as child labour, palm oil, trans fats or dirty coal... Grant O'Brien's observations are absolutely right. Point of sale will need to deliver ...