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USA: Coca-Cola to pay $ 2.25 mln. to settle 9 discrimination charges alleging co's failure to properly accommodate employees with disabilities
Author: Lisa Burden, HR Dive (USA)
"Coca-Cola to pay $2.25M, update return-to-work policy to settle ADA charge", 31 Aug 2018...
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- Related companies: Coca-Cola
Author: Consejería Presidencial de Derechos Humanos (Colombia)
“2do Informe de seguimiento del Plan Nacional de Acción de Derechos Humanos y Empresas 2017- 2018”...
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- Related companies: Anglo American Anheuser-Busch InBev Aviatur Bavaria (part of SABMiller) BHP Billiton Brookfield Cemex Cerrejón Coal (joint venture Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Glencore) Cerro Matoso (part of South32, part of BHP Billiton) Colombia Natural Resources, CNR (part of Murray Energy) Drummond Ecopetrol Fortox Security Group Glencore Grupo Bolívar Grupo Nutresa Isagen (part of Brookfield) Mineros Murray Energy Prodeco (part of Glencore) SABMiller (part of Anheuser-Busch InBev) Smurfit Kappa Cartón de Colombia (part of Smurfit Kappa) South32 (part of BHP Billiton) Telefónica
Australia & New Zealand: Workers with disabilities reportedly being acutely underpaid, some receiving only $1 an hour
Media reports cite employees with disabilities in Australia and New Zealand are being paid as little as $1 an hour. Rights groups say that the practice breaches international law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
Commentary: Companies risk disability discrimination lawsuits if fail to address employees' mental health issues
Author: Charles Urquhart, Building (UK)
"Legal: Facing up to mental health", 2 Aug 2018...
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EU: Parliament adopts resolution on rights of indigenous peoples; incl. recommendations on extraterritorial responsibility of European co's
Author: Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization
"European Parliament Adopts Far-Reaching Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous People Worldwide", 23 July 2018...
United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights' statement at the end of mission to Kenya
Author: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
"Statement at the end of visit to Kenya by the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights"...
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Author: Pacto Global Chile
“Encuentro de Relaciones Laborales abordó la implementación de la Nueva Ley de Inclusión Laboral en las empresas” - 29 de junio de 2018...
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Kenya: Court orders LafargeHolcim's subsidiary to compensate ex-employee for work-related hearing impairment
Author: Dzuya Walter, Citizen Digital (Kenya)
"Bamburi Cement ex-employee awarded Ksh.7.9M compensation"...
- Related companies: Bamburi Cement (part of LafargeHolcim)
UK: Supreme Court rules self-employed contractor entitled to workers' rights in lawsuit against plumbing co.
Author: Sejal Raja, RadcliffesLeBrasseur (UK)
"Pimlico Plumbers – The final chapter?", 13 June 2018...
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