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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

12 March 2020

TUAC Messages to the OECD on Responsible Business Conduct

Following stakeholder consultations with the OECD Working Party on RBC that took place on 3 March 2020, the TUAC shared the following comments and messages with OECD member states representatives. Implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Evolving digital and environmental ...

17 February 2020

OECD on path to a treaty model clause for responsible business conduct ?/ L’OCDE sur la voie d’une clause type pour une conduite responsable des

EN (FR ci-dessous) On 15 January 2020, the OECD launched a public consultation on “business responsibilities and investment treaties“.  The consultation paper describes developments at national and international level in the area of business responsibilities that may influence trade ...

07 January 2020

Trade Unions Demand Changes to Korean National Contact Point

The effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in ensuring proper business responsibility within global supply chains requires functioning National Contact Points (NCPs) established by signing governments. That does not appear to be the case in Korea. Following recent ...

07 November 2019

Investment Week 2019 Recap: A Fearless Inventory of FDI/ Récapitulatif de la semaine de l’investissement 2019 :un inventaire audacieux des IDE

(FR CI-DESSOUS) EN OECD and TUAC took the first steps toward investing in responsible business conduct, yet political will remains a challenge. OECD presented findings contained in its first report on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) qualities indicators during 2019 “investment week” which took ...