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Article

11 Nov 2009

Author:
IRRC Institute (Investor Responsibility Research Center) [USA]

[PDF] Supply-chain Labor and Human Rights Policies Are Becoming the Norm for Large Cap Companies

Some 28% of global companies – including nearly half of those with market capitalizations of more than $10 billion – have labor and human rights (LHR) policies covering their global supply chains. However, materially fewer have established follow-up monitoring and enforcement procedures. Geographically, LHR supply-chain policies are close to the norm among European companies, but the United States and Asia lag behind. These findings are contained in a new study that is the first publicly available benchmarking analysis of global LHR policies, and covers more than 2500 global companies.