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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 Andrea Fromm. For more information, please contact fromm@tuac.org

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 ...

13 May 2019

TUAC recommendations to OECD work on corporate governance

On 15 April 2019, TUAC took part into the discussions of the OECD Committee on Corporate Governance. TUAC shared the following submission, key policy messages being:   During a roundtable on climate-related financial disclosures, TUAC underlined the importance of taking into account exposure ...

26 February 2019

OECD report on Corporate Debt Vulnerabilities exposes the dangers of unconditional monetary support and the need to take action for long-term business models

Signs of the global slowdown continue to accumulate. Manufacturing production is shrinking in several key economies, retail sales are disappointing, world trade is substantially losing steam and some countries are already in technical recession. The joint economic upturn across the globe we saw ...

02 November 2018

TUAC calls for enhancing the corporate governance agenda at the OECD/ Appel du TUAC à l’OCDE pour un agenda renforcé sur la gouvernance

On 16 october 2018, the TUAC held consultations with the OECD Committee on Corporate Governance and took part in a committee roundtable on compay group structures, together with the business counterpart the BIAC. The TUAC shared the following submission, the key policy messages being: Current ...