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.