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Labour issues and the Equator Principles

A new version of the Equator Principles - the voluntary framework for addressing social and environmental risk in project finance - has been published. The new guidelines incorporate the IFC’s recently updated Performance Standards on sustainability issues, including PS2 on labour issues. Ergon has produced a new Special Briefing outlining the labour components of Equator II to assist signatories, their clients and other stakeholders in understanding the new requirements.

Ergon focus on labour May 2006

Includes articles on the labour aspects of new IFC Performance Standards - including an examination of relevant revisions to the equator principles, labour rights in Sri Lanka, and private sector guidance for dealing with forced labour. Focus on labour also contains newspoints on recent developments.
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Ergon focus on labour July 2006

Includes articles on labour law reform in China, trade union strategies and investment, purchasing practices and their effect on labour rights and details of the newly adopted equator principles. Focus on labour also contains newspoints on recent developments.
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Ergon focus on labour February 2006

The newsletter includes articles on stress in the workplace, labour rights in Bulgaria, the draft GRI reporting standards and labour issues in tourism. Focus on labour also contains newspoints on recent developments.
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IFC Good Practice Note on retrenchment

Ergon have written a guide on good practice in retrenchment for the International Finance Corporation, the Private Sector arm of the World Bank Group. The Good Practice Note is part of a new suite of guidance from IFC on labour issues to accompany the organisation's soon-to-be-implemented new policies on labour rights.
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News from the ITUC

ASEM Social partners Meeting with Labour Ministers
An international delegation of workers' and employers' organisations is meeting with labour ministers from Europe and Asia on October 13, in...

ITUC wants those responsible for the ?Probo Koala? dumping of hazardous wastes identified and brought to account
Two years after the scandal of uncontrolled dumping of hazardous wastes in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, which killed 17 people and affected more than 100,000...

Employment law blog

Agency workers decision clarifies difficult issues?
The decision of the Court of Appeal in James v Londn Borough of Greenwich has finally brought the debate over the question of whether a long-term agen...

Age discrimination - Have Heyday had their heyday? The European Court decision in Palacios de la Villa
The issue of the legality of mandatory retirement ages is a complex one. For many non-employment law aficionados, there was an assumption that the int...