MNE Guidelines & Complaints

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (“Guidelines”) offer an authoritative international framework for responsible business conduct. Workers are the first impacted by international business operations and supply chains.

The Guidelines are government recommendations for how an enterprise should approach human rights, labour rights, environmental stewardship, consumer rights, effective processes for risk-based due diligence, tax obligations, and competitive business practices throughout an enterprise’s value chain.

The Guidelines Part II establishes a network of National Contact Points (“NCPs”) within national governments to promote and defend the Guideline standards. NCPs offer a uniquely valuable process for non-judicial dispute resolution with a capacity to address concerns on a multinational scale.

Active trade union specific instances in progress appear below. Trade union affiliates and partners can register to gain complete access to the searchable database of cases filed since 2001 and use the trade union NCP specific instance generating form.

Eligibility for registration and access to mneguidelines.tuac.org is made exclusively available to the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD ("TUAC"), its affiliated trade unions and partners.