Employment Injury Insurance in Bangladesh: Bridging the Gap Despite being the second largest exporter of clothing, and the location of some of the worst recent factory disasters, Bangladesh is one of only a handful of countries that completely fails to provide for a national employment injury scheme for workers who are injured in private workplaces. This position paper makes the case for swift action to put in place a national employment injury insurance system in Bangladesh, with a bridging solution to serve as a stepping stone and to support workers and their families affected by factory incidents since the Rana Plaza collapse. Mehr Details
CSR in North Rhine-Westphalia Sustainability transformation in business, civil society and politics This book describes the developments in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from completely different perspectives. The experience and expertise of numerous North Rhine-Westphalian CSR experts from business, academia, civil society and politics are processed in a structured manner. This gives readers a comprehensive overview of the topic of CSR and practical insider knowledge from the North Rhine-Westphalian economy. The book makes a valuable contribution to the future orientation and further development of the CSR site in NRW and also offers in-depth know-how and innovative suggestions for CSR protagonists in other German federal states. Mehr Details
Microplastic Policies for the Government As part of the study, the group attempted to understand the release of plastic microfibers during the washing process. The document is the result of a series of round tables held by the Group with over thirty relevant organisations. These included global washing machine manufacturers, leading academics, industry and retail representatives, and environmental groups. During the talks, the representatives informed the parliamentarians about the current state of research and, in their opinion, the most important problems related to microplastics. The group also received written comments from relevant stakeholders on feasible, holistic policy proposals that, if implemented by the government, could significantly reduce the release of microfiber plastic into our environment. Mehr Details
Scandal: Poverty wages on the edge of Europe Fair Pay in Eastern Europe: to eat, to live, to stay [...] While globalisation has created global growth, this growth – as seen in Eastern Europe – is not inclusive, and massive inequality is now a recognised economic as well as a social risk. [...]This report shows wage developments of east European countries and country profiles with an overview of economic and wage data of different countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. It contains interviews with workers from different sectors (e.g. garment industry) who share about their working and living conditions. Mehr Details
Safety and labour conditions: the accord and the national tripartite plan of action for the garment industry of Bangladesh GLU ⁇ Safety and Labour Conditions: Implementation of the Accord and the NTPA III ABSTRACT The factory fire at Tazreen Fashions in 2012 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza in 2013 generated a huge outcry about the working conditions and labour relations in the Readymade Garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh, and led to the adoption of the multi-stakeholder agreements Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (Accord) at the international level and the National Tripartite Plan of Action (NTPA) at the domestic level. This paper investigates how the Accord and the NTPA have been implemented in the first two years after their adoption, whether they have contributed to an overall improvement in safety and labour conditions as well as to organizing in the RMG sector, and whether they can be considered as a “major breakthrough” and “game changer”. The empirical research highlights the scope and limitations of the coverage of the two agreements. The findings indicate that after an initially good take-off, the activities lost pace and intensity and the remediation came almost to a standstill. The main assumption of the analysis of the Accord and NTPA implementation is that this process, its pace, results and constraints are consequences of the underlying power structures of the transnational apparel chains and the actual imbalance of power among the stakeholders. Mehr Details
