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Shareholder campaign to eradicate forced labour yields multiple corporate commitments
Author: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of faith and values investors...announced [on 9 August 2017] breakthroughs with five companies they have been engaging to promote ethical labor recruitment policies...
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Author: Agencia de Información Laboral, AIL-ENS
“Por despedir trabajadores enfermos, juez ordena 3 días de arresto al presidente de Colmotores” - 1 de agosto de 2017...
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Author: L'Obs (France)
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Tesla & Disney's CEOs quit Trump's business panel over Paris pullout
Author: Dominic Rushe, The Guardian (UK)
Two of the US's biggest business leaders, Tesla founder Elon Musk and Disney's Robert Iger, have quit Trump's high-powered business advisory panel after the president pressed ahead with plans to pull out of the Paris climate accord...The two...
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GE CEO Jeff Immelt announces opposition to Trump's exit from Paris climate agreement
Author: Ethan Wolff-Mann, Yahoo Finance (USA)
"Here's how CEOs reacted to Trump's exit from Paris climate agreement," 1 June 2017...
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So. Africa: At least 500 employees to be retrenched as General Motors ceases operations; workers union says company never consulted them
Author: Ray Mahlaka, Moneyweb (South Africa)
"General Motors counts initial job losses from SA exit", 22 May 2017...
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India to legalise mica mining in bid to tackle endemic child labour
Author: Kate Hodal, Guardian [UK]
India is to legalise the mining of mica, a sparkly mineral used in eyeshadows and car paint, in a bid to cut the number of children who labour – and often die – to produce it...Activists lauded the decision to legalise mica mining, but warned that...
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Billions of dollars for public services lost due to tax dodging by US companies, says Oxfam
Foreign Investors Flock to Iran as U.S. Firms Watch on the Sidelines
Author: Wall Street Journal, Asa Fitch and Benoit Faucon
After years shunning Iran, Western businesses are bursting through the country’s doors—but U.S. companies are noticeably absent....
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USA: "Inside Alabama’s auto jobs boom: Cheap wages, little training, crushed limbs" - Bloomberg
Author: Peter Waldman, BloombergBusinessweek (USA)
[Article originally published 23 March 2017, with 13-minute audio report (scroll down to end of full article).]...