The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on global supply chains. In a note prepared by the OECD Centre for Responsible Business Conduct it was reported that a significant percentage of supplier factories had seen their activities drop by 50% or more and there...
Companies often announce their corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) mission statements and commitments with great public fanfare, pledging to proactively contribute to improving social conditions and protecting the environment. While putting the company’s brand and reputation on the line in this way is important, the reality...
Assessment and strategy development are planning stages in the corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) process and the real work begins when the company transitions to making its strategy come alive through action. The first step in that process is the development of CSR commitments, which are...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights described the Covid-19 outbreak as “a serious threat to the right to life and to health of people everywhere” and argued that the international human rights framework could provide “crucial guideposts that can strengthen the effectiveness” of the...
The actions of the directors in overseeing their company’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic need to be taken in the broader context of prior case law defining and interpreting the oversight responsibilities of the board. Most notably for directors of companies incorporated in Delaware, the...
When making decisions about the actions to be taken to address the unique challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies and their leaders have relied on a variety of tools and guidelines specific to their situations such as applicable laws and regulations, their own internal codes...
When governments responded to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 with “stay-at-home” orders that shut down businesses and left millions of households desperate for ways to continue to buy products needed to get through the crisis, the demand for Amazon services exploded. ...
Reopening a business during the pandemic is essential and inevitable, but it will certainly be a daunting process that will require consideration of how workers can be brought on board safely, how customer concerns will be addressed and how everything can be done in a...
Writing in the New York Times in April 2020, David Sax suggested that the Coronavirus pandemic and related public health and economic crises should serve as a reminder of the types of entrepreneurship that truly matter in our society. Sax noted that entrepreneurship has frequently...
Once the human rights strategy has been completed it is time to move forward with developing and implementing human rights commitments. Developing those commitments involves doing a scan of existing commitments relating to human rights issues; holding discussions with major stakeholders; creating a working group...