Responsible business conduct
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 Andrea Fromm. For more information, please contact fromm@tuac.org
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 ...
Renewed Stakeholder support for National Contact Points of the OECD
In the tradition of constructive social dialogue in support for the OECD work on RBC, the TUAC is releasing a joint statement with Business @ OECD and OECD Watch to express shared support for National Contact Points (NCPs) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in response to the ...
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Trade Union Messages at the OECD Forum on Responsible Business – II
The 2020 OECD Forum on Responsible Business Conduct took place virtually and in two parts. The first part took place 19 May and covered topics related to responsible business, resilient supply chains, government policies and social dialogue in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. The second part ...
Trade Union Messages at the OECD Forum on Responsible Business Conduct
This year, the OECD Forum on Responsible Business Conduct is being presented virtually and in two parts. The first video forum took place 19 May and covered topics related to responsible business, resilient supply chains, government policies and social dialogue in response to the Covid 19 ...
First case related to Covid-19 under the MNE Guidelines
UNI Global Union and affiliated unions filed a specific instance with the France National Contact Point of the OECD. UNI Global Union is the umbrella organisation for the service sector representing 20 million workers in 150 countries. The submission under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational ...
