Say on Pay Six Years On: Lessons from the UK Experience is a thought-provoking examination of the six-year history of advisory shareholder votes on executive compensation in the UK…
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In SHARE’s news briefing for July, we introduced the issue of state-directed child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry, where reportedly children as young as nine are being forced to harvest cotton. This article…
In May 2009, holders of Thomson Reuters Corporation common shares became the first to have a ‘say on pay’ at a Canadian company.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the world’s largest tissue products manufacturer, has just announced a new corporate environmental policy that incorporates outstanding commitments to responsible forest management.
This fall, schoolchildren will be transported to Uzbekistan’s fields to harvest cotton. Uzbekistan is the third largest exporter of cotton worldwide, and cotton serves as an economic monoculture…
The OECD Guidelines for Pension Fund Governance were released on July 7, 2009.
The document describes the fundamental requirements of pension fund governance, with an emphasis on risk management.
Not so long ago, holders of shares in U.S. and Canadian companies dropped their proxy ballots into a black hole. Companies in both countries were…
The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) recently published the first ever trade union “checklist”* on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The checklist, which is designed to be applied to…
