The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark has just launched its second league table, ranking some of the world’s largest companies in terms of their approach to respecting workers, consumers and communities.
Worldwide, interest in impact investment – investing with the goal of environmental and social impact in addition to financial return – is growing. So why is the UK lagging behind?
A lack of formal worker representation fuels and exacerbates a lack of access to universal workplace rights and protections within supplier companies. Here's what needs to happen.
Living wage initiatives take time to develop into tangible, sustainable results for workers… it’s a complex process. But why are there are still so few of them?
New UN recommendations to companies, governments and investors state that human rights due diligence is critical to determining responsibility and accountability amongst states and businesses.
In Bangladesh, negotiations over the wages paid to workers in the ready made garment sector continue. But how are they calculated and are they realistic? And what can international brands do?
Following recent reports on the urgency of climate change action and the need to mitigate the environmental impact of business, ETI's Industrial Relations Adviser, Beverley Hall, asks 'what about the workers?'
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