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
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 ...
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 ...
Implementing the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
In May 2018, the OECD Council adopted a Council Recommendation to promote and implement the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct. The Recommendation was released at the OECD 2018 MCM. The Guidance explains how companies should conduct diligence to avoid and address ...