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Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... time respectively across all sectors. The least widely protected labour and human rights standards are those for child labour and forced labour, achieving average disclosure of 14% and 13% respectively. Many companies did not formally extend their policies ...

Q&A with James Gifford, executive director of the UNPRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... country, but actually there are very different conceptions between the developed world and developing countries. While child labour standard are emerging now, there are still some different standards about children working in family businesses, those ...

Companies testing labour, human rights supply chain standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute. The KPIs will assess the companies' codes of conduct regarding issues like child labour, freedom of association and occupational health and safety, the training provided to company managers and suppliers ...

ETI to focus on collaborative supply chain initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... their 2011 highlights, ETI pointed to research into Madagascan vanilla production that showed "clear evidence of child labour, and of more widespread use of children to carry out unpaid or low-paid work within a family setting, outside school hours," ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... subject for problematic behaviours that are relatively easily remedied. By comparison, correcting problems relating to child labour and freedom of association often raise more challenging social and political questions. For these reasons small companies ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... intangible - brand and reputation - and those assets are vulnerable, such as when Nike was accused in the 1990s of using child labour in its supply chain. The AMP Capital report notes that the risk of reputational damage versus the reward of outsourcing ...
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