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Scentre Group to increase disclosure for cleaning contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... just the processes for identifying and mitigating risks within their cleaning supply chains, but also how work, health and safety obligations are monitored and the efficacy of grievance mechanisms available to workers, ACCR noted. "Our requirement for ...

Social premium on the rise: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Hermes. Federated Hermes' data methodology has shown that outperformance on social factors such as employee health and safety has actually increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and is up from 15 basis points per month in 2018, when Federated Hermes ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... terms of climate emissions, varying standards of corporate governance and concerns over issues like occupational health and safety, worker rights and other considerations. The MSCI Emerging Markets ESG Leaders index has outperformed the wider MSCI Emerging ...

Social license to operate, stakeholder management key governance concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... The COVID-19 pandemic has brought these issues into stark relief, as companies manage employee occupational health and safety, financial hardship and wellbeing of customer base, and the overarching pandemic-related recession and government fiscal response ...

Cromwell Property Group sets net zero carbon target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... whole myriad of questions to be asked and they varied state to state." In addition to managing the occupational health and safety implications of COVID-19, Cromwell disclosed other metrics regarding OH&S, including employee training and facilities services ...

Evolution Mining links value generation to sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... vice president - sustainability at Evolution Mining. She highlighted the alignment between strong occupational health and safety, regard for environment, and minimising water usage with cost containment, for example. The company produced 746,463 ounces ...

Investing for the day after tomorrow: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... COVID-19 has served to highlight other issues relating to ESG throughout the investment universe, including health and safety and ability to monitor breaches of human rights standards. "We've been working on cobalt mining in the [Democratic Republic ...

Cleanaway publishes first sustainability report after engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Through this ongoing engagement, we emphasised the importance of reporting on sustainability issues such as health and safety, waste management, circular economy, climate change and decarbonisation, diversity and remuneration. We noted that as the company ...

Medibank issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... the impact of having workers at 84 stores that had to switch from a customer-facing role to a remote role for health and safety reasons, redirecting and retraining those individuals to serve in a customer connect centre, Bishop said. During the COVID-19 ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... During 2020, the relative materiality of greenhouse gas emissions has fallen, whereas labour practices, employee health and safety, and supply chain management has increased in importance. However, climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions remain important ...