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UN Global Compact encourages business to pay workers a living wage
World’s largest corporate sustainability initiative calls on companies to provide a living wage to ensure all workers, families and communities can live in dignity
June 09, 2021 09:00 ET | Source: United Nations Global Compact United Nations Global Compact New York, New York, UNITED STATES
New York, NY, June 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) UNITED NATIONS, New York, 9 June 2021 Today the United Nations Global Compact launched a new digital report, Improving Wages to Advance Decent Work in Supply Chains, aimed at encouraging companies to promote and provide a living wage as an essential aspect of decent work to ensure workers, their families and communities can live in dignity.
New York, NY, United States of America
World’s largest corporate sustainability initiative calls on companies to provide a living wage to ensure all workers, families and communities can live in dignity
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 9 June 2021 Today the United Nations Global Compact launched a new digital report, Improving Wages to Advance Decent Work in Supply Chains, aimed at encouraging companies to promote and provide a living wage as an essential aspect of decent work to ensure workers, their families and communities can live in dignity.
The report finds that although it has long been acknowledged that improving wages for the lowest-paid workers in the supply chain is a pressing challenge for responsible multinational businesses, there is now a rapid evolution in both commitment and action. As the responsibility of business to tackle working poverty has become clearer, a range of companies are taking concrete actions to ensure workers are provided with a living wage.
More than 20,000 leaders from business, government, the UN, and civil society will gather for the UN’s largest corporate sustainability event to elevate.
Private sector engagement in internal displacement – recommendations for policy makers
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Heightened attention and action are needed to address the global internal displacement crisis. As the private sector can play an indispensable role in supporting forcibly displaced people, it is important to unpack how their contributions can be leveraged and maximized. Following consultations with the CBi Member Networks, here are some ideas how the Connecting Business initiative encourages policy makers to approach private sector engagement.
First, policy makers should not overlook the role of the local private sector. It is these businesses often micro, small and medium in size who are among the first responders when a shock forces people to flee their homes. In 2020, in addition to fighting COVID-19, 9 CBi Member Networks responded to a total of 19 crises. These ranged from Tropical Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu to a drought in Madagascar, flooding in Mexico and volcanic eruption in