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The Living Wage Foundation and ShareAction have designed this toolkit to help investors in UK markets understand how and why to encourage their portfolio companies to adopt the real Living Wage. The toolkit covers what the real Living Wage is, the business case, industry specific challenges and opportunities and engagement tips for investors.
Paying the Living Wage isn’t just the right thing to do, there is growing evidence of it having business benefits too.
Businesses built on foundations of low-paid and poor quality work create a range of reputational and operational risks. These risks have the potential to negatively impact long-term sustainability of business and investment returns.
In 2017, Cardiff Business School found that 93% of Living Wage Employers reported that they had experienced business benefits from accreditation with the Living Wage Foundation. These included reputational effects, a greater ability to recruit and retain workers, lower absenteeism and higher productivity.
The rapid deployment of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) has raised major concerns about the impact on privacy, data protection, and civil liberties. This engagement calls on the companies involved in this technology to increase disclosure, to…
New brief by Walk Free discusses the role of pension funds in addressing modern slavery risk in operations and investment decisions. It draws from the findings of a recent report by Walk Free, WikiRate and the Business & Human Rights Resource…
NEI Investments, on behalf of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR), invites investors to sign-on to the Investor Statement on Corporate Accountability for Digital Rights and to participate in the engagement of 26 ICT companies.