All news: Electronics, machinery and electrical equipment
From voluntary initiatives to legal obligations: Responsible business and decent work in global supply chains
The RSCA held a training to help Chulalongkorn University law students understand the labour dimensions of complex global supply chains
Future business leaders in Thailand reached through their teachers
Training of lecturers from the Faculty of Business Administration (BUS), Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon (RMUTP), aims to integrate international concepts of corporate social responsibility into their social enterprise courses.
Our impact, Their voices
Partnership successes in Egypt: Pilot results show enterprise improvements on all fronts
The results of the SCORE Training pilot programme in collaboration with the Egyptian Federation of Industries (FEI) show an average satisfaction rate of 90 per cent and significant productivity gains. Companies have not only shown their willingness...
Enhancing responsible business practices in key Chinese industries
Leading automotive supply chain businesses discuss the role of responsible business practices in their future
Peer learning on socially responsible business and good labour practices in supply chains: a competitive factor for the automotive sector in a globalized world
The ILO and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) join forces to strengthen the labour dimension of corporate social...
Delegates enthusiastically engage on issues around labour standards, Chinese labour law and CSR during a three-day training
Delegates affirm the central role of business in driving progress on human rights and inclusive growth in Asia
A conference discusses the place of government, business and civil society in advancing responsible business conduct.
Waste management
Urgent action needed to better manage e-waste: ILO
Representatives of governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations agree more must be done, and urgently, to manage the millions of tonnes of e-waste produced each year.
Waste management
ILO’s first ever meeting on e-waste adopts Points of Consensus to promote decent work in the sector
Rapid technological advances and a rising demand for electronics has been accompanied by a flood of e-waste. It is a toxic stream of waste that poses a threat to human health, decent work and the environment. E-waste can also be seen as a resource...
China to benefit from responsible business conduct in supply chains
Delegates to a technical seminar on CSR in the electronics and textiles sectors discuss challenges and practices.
MNEs
Japan’s Minister calls for socially responsible labour practices in electronics sector
He praises efforts by businesses in Viet Nam to conduct social dialogues and corporate social responsibilities, which can contribute to the long-term socio-economic development of the country.
MNEs
Electronics business coalition kicked off to boost CSR in labour practices
The ultimate goal of the coalition is to contribute to more and better jobs while improving industrial relations in Viet Nam’s electronics sector.
Labour inspection
Labour inspectors to focus on electronics firms in 2017
The annual labour inspection campaign is expected to improve law compliance in this key export sector.
Business and intergration
New partnership agreed for more and better jobs in electronics sector
Multinational enterprises, the Vietnamese Government, employers’ and workers’ organizations have agreed to work in close partnership to create more and better jobs in the electronics sector – one of the country’s newest and biggest manufacturing...
Engineering Sector HIV/AIDS Policy launched in Zimbabwe
The Engineering, Iron and Steel Industry in Zimbabwe launched a Workplace Policy on HIV and AIDS, TB and other opportunistic illnesses.
Corporate responsibility
Launching a Project on Increasing and Improving Jobs Through Socially Responsible Labour Practices
The project will contribute towards encouraging MNEs to contribute positively to economic and social development through socially responsible labour practices in Viet Nam, with a special focus on the electronics sector.
The current reality and future of work, in India and beyond
MOLE-IHD-ILO public lecture by Ms Sandra Polaski, Deputy Director-General (Policy), ILO, Geneva
ILO statement on the VERITE report concerning working conditions in Malaysia's electronics sector
Employers’ role in developing social partnership system in Russia – conference in Moscow
At the initiative of the All-Russian Association of Employers of Electric Power Industry on May 29 Moscow hosted a research and practice conference focusing on prospects for development of sectoral employers’ associations and their role in...
Safety at work
Turning computer junk into jobs
Vast amounts of electrical and electronic waste end up in developing countries where the recycling methods are often hazardous. Integrating informal e-waste operations into the formal sector can help make the process safer, according to an ILO study...