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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 ...

UN Global Compact, GRI most cited CSR instruments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... the UN Global Compact at 32%. Other instruments cited in the sample of public CSR statements included the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines, ISO 26000, the Universal ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... capita income lifted from 16 th among OECD nations in 1990 to 6 th in 2010, overtaking the US in 2005. From 1993 to 1999, labour and capital productivity drove growth in all sectors. Then to 2005, as commodity prices started to boom, our terms of trade ...

One third of ASX100 companies assure sustainability reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... like to have assured. The report found that environmental data were the most commonly assured disclosures, followed by labour practices and product responsibility and society, but that assurance of human rights disclosures was only clearly identified ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... second most mentioned material issue, with mentions from 80% of respondents. Environment came in third at 76%, and social/labour practices and decent work was mentioned by 71% of interviewed stakeholders. The research asked interviewees about seven broad ...