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WEF Panel: Companies Must Build Trust or Face Regulation
January 29, 2018
Participating in a panel at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, a group of high-level business leaders warned businesses that they have a responsibility to "build trust in their values and intentions" across the general public to avoid invasive government regulations of their operations.
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UN Groups Seek Global Adoption of Gender-Pay Laws
January 29, 2018
Two UN human rights working groups have called on governments around the world to combat gender-pay discrimination using the example of Icelandic legislation requiring businesses with 25 or more employees to obtain an "equal pay certificate" showing they "have classified jobs according to equal value and have then analysed people’s wages accordingly."
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Coke Faces Criticism for "Band-aid" Plastics Policy
January 29, 2018
Activist organization Greenpeace has downplayed the impacts of beverage company Coca-Cola's announcement that it will increase its use of recycled plastic to 50% worldwide by the year 2030, arguing that this policy is a "band-aid" that will do little to reduce the company's "plastic footprint."
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NGO Pushes WEF to Seek "Justice" for Corporate Conduct
January 29, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Greenpeace has marked the beginning of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, by releasing a report accusing various global companies of environmental destruction and human rights abuses and calling on world leaders to prevent these harms by imposing mandatory reporting and other policies on businesses.
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NGO Criticizes McDonald's Move Toward "Sustainable" Packaging
January 29, 2018
Activist environmental organization Greenpeace has criticized the announcement of fast-food company McDonald's that it would create all of its guest packaging from renewable, recycled, or "certified" sources by the year 2025 and tackle its use of foam packaging for failing to deal with the "epidemic" of the production of single-use plastics.
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