Download the article in PDF format *** The escalating crisis of workplace mental health has placed corporate social responsibility (CSR) frameworks under intense scrutiny, raising questions about whether they represent genuine care or performative compliance. This article deconstructs the gap between corporate policy and practice through a detailed legal and ethical analysis of the 2024 … Continue reading Performative CSR and Mental Health: Legal and Ethical Lessons from Muir v. AstraZeneca
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Josh Bornstein – Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Silencing Employees (video)
On the 23rd of November 2020, Josh Bornstein (Principal Lawyer at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers) gave his presentation during the seminar of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics Blog’s End-of-Year Seminar Series 2020 entitled “CSR, Whistleblowing and Human Rights” and organized by Dr. Costantino Grasso, Dr. Dawn Carpenter, and Dr. Luca d’Ambrosio. The series has been organised in … Continue reading Josh Bornstein – Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Silencing Employees (video)
Guest Post: The ‘gig economy’ on trial, raising CSR concerns
Prof. Stephen Hardy, Professor of Law and Head of Coventry Law School, contributes to today’s guest post: The term ‘gig economy’ refers to a free market system in which temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements. This trend towards a gig economy has created a growth in independent contractors with … Continue reading Guest Post: The ‘gig economy’ on trial, raising CSR concerns
Guest Post: The UK’s voluntary Living Wage and its contribution to building a better economy and ethical business
Dr Andrea Werner, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management Leadership & Organisations of the Middlesex University Business School, contributes to today’s guest post: In 2017, nearly 5 million people in the UK earned less than two-thirds than the poverty threshold of two-thirds of median hourly wage, an indication that despite low unemployment figures a significant proportion of the UK … Continue reading Guest Post: The UK’s voluntary Living Wage and its contribution to building a better economy and ethical business