This case study provides an overview of the international framework agreement reached between the global telecommunications group Telefónica and Union Network International (UNI). Referred to as the UNI–Telefónica Code of Conduct, the agreement was first reached in March 2001 and further revised in
On 24 January 2005, the CEO of Electricité de France (EDF), the representatives of all unions in the main subsidiaries of the Group, as well as the four global union federations in the Group’s sector, signed an agreement on the Group’s social responsibility. This international framework agreement
IKEA signed with Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI, formerly IFBWW) one of the first international framework agreements (IFAs) in May 1998. This IFA has been revised in 2001 to include the internal IKEA code of conduct (IWAY) which had been developed since 1999. The IWAY code of conduct
On 1 March 2006, the CEO and the director of human resources management of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) and the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) signed the PSA Peugeot Citroën Global Framework Agreement on Social Responsibility (IFA), ‘A commitment to
In recent years, the rapid process of globalisation has triggered a political debate on international working and production standards, and the need for supra-national structures and regulation. The adoption of corporate codes of conduct and international framework agreements (IFAs) is a reflection
Arcelor’s Code of Ethics was adopted in 2005 at a conference gathering 500 managers of the Arcelor Group. The document completed the Arcelor Principles of Responsibility, which outline Arcelor’s vision, ‘Steel solutions for a better world’, and its mission, ‘to assert Arcelor as a reference value in
This report forms part of the research initiative taken by the Foundation into the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It aimed to investigate and describe corporate policies designed to instigate social responsibility in the field of working conditions and employment. Two specific issues