Responsible business
The OECD is a leading international standard-setter on responsible business conduct.
Through our engagement with the OECD’s Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct, TUAC has contributed to achieving, and continues to press for, decent work and enforcement of workers’ rights and more effective mechanisms for dealing with issues related to labour and environmental standards.
TUAC’s work on responsible business is led by Mathilde Frapard. For more information, please contact frapard@tuac.org
TUAC Working Group on Multinational Enterprises addresses the OECD responsible business conduct agenda/ le groupe de travail du TUAC sur les entreprises
EN (FR CI-DESSOUS) Between 22 and 26 March 2021, the TUAC Working Group on Multinational Enterprises convened virtually over three days to discuss priority initiatives on trade, investment and responsible business conduct, including the future of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, ...
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Turkish Metal Workers Register Labour Relations Concerns at Systemair AB
The Turkish Metal Workers Union, BİRLESİK METAL-İŞ filed a specific instance with the Sweden National Contact Point of the OECD. The submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises is the latest NCP complaint to address industrial relations issues arising out of the ...
Malaysian Bank Union Registers Labour Relations Concerns about HSBC
The National Union of Banking Employees (NUBE) filed a specific instance with the UK National Contact Point of the OECD. The submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises is the second NCP complaint to address issues arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic. The union alleges ...
20 Years of the National Contact Points
The TUAC welcomes the launch of the report as part of the OECD commemorating its the 60th Anniversary, “National Contact Points Providing Access to Remedy: 20 years later and the road ahead.” Trade unions acknowledge the potential value in the NCP and take this opportunity to reflect on ...
Urgent call for a public registry of company ownership (ENG & FR)
(Version française ci-dessous) The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) joins the ITUC and more than 20 global organisations calling for an urgent commitment to create a global standard for centralised, public beneficial ownership registers. The Joint Appeal is submitted to the ...
TUAC Proposes Verifiable Due Diligence Policy
In support for trade unions’ call for a ‘Roadmap for fair and sustainable recovery that people can trust’, the TUAC proposed a progressive policy tool for National Contact Points to use when resolving specific instance complaints. The policy is seen as an important way for NCPs ...
New OECD Recommendations on Infrastructure: Good intentions, but missing the point about public goods and social dialogue / Nouvelles recommandations de
(Version française ci-dessous) On 2 November 2020, the OECD launched its new Compendium on Infrastructure Governance. Together with the new OECD Recommendation on the Governance of infrastructure, this new instrument is intended to provide good practices to strengthen infrastructure planning, ...
OECD Export Credit Group Consultation – TUAC calls on ECAs to Tighten Social-Financial Links on Aircraft and Shipping Credits
Making best use of responsible export credit arrangements in times of crisis As part of stakeholder consultations with the OECD Export Credits Working Group 20/21 October, the TUAC, in partnership with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and International Association of ...
