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January 20, 2026 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Workers are entitled to human and group rights while they are at work and companies must ensure they uphold and respect these rights. This includes taking action on respecting human dignity and integrity; ensuring safe and healthy working conditions; providing fair compensation; strengthening company-worker relations; building respectful, equitable, and inclusive workplaces; engaging in workforce planning and employee development; and supporting worker wellbeing. In this blog, we share insights from our Getting Started Guides on Rights and Wellbeing at Work.
July 22, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Human rights are inherent rights that we all have, simply because we exist as human beings. Company policies, practices, due diligence, culture, and decision-making must collectively ensure that workers’ human rights and dignity are respected. In this blog, we share insights from our Human Dignity and Integrity (Tackling Modern Slavery): A Getting Started Guide on how to respect the human rights and dignity of workers in your operations, supply chains, and business relationships.
June 23, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Unpredictable hours, eroded worker protections, low wages, no benefits – work has become more precarious for many. Workers around the world are increasingly reliant on informal, casual, or temporary work arrangements – from piecework jobs to the gig economy – to make ends meet. This rise is precarious work jeopardizes decent work. In this blog, we discuss the rising prevalence of precarious work and explore the role of companies in tackling (and preventing) vulnerable work arrangements.
May 27, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Stephanie Bertels
Maintaining good company-worker relations provides clear business benefits. Strong relationships, open communication, fostering psychological safety, effective grievance mechanisms, and workers’ ability to engage in their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining underpin the realisation of many other fundamental principles and rights at work. In this blog, we share insights from our guide on company-worker relations.
January 23, 2025 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Cecile Feront
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) programs can often provoke strong feelings of discomfort, fear, and loss from privileged identities. In this blog, we share our insights on addressing these feelings and point you to some key resources to guide your EDI journey.
May 8, 2024 · By Brandon Toews and Mahroo Shahbaz
In this blog post we explore the right to a living wage to help you to understand why it is relevant for companies and how you can get started on your living wage journey.
April 16, 2024 · By Mahroo Shahbaz and Rachel Dekker
With workforce diversity on the rise, more companies are beginning to realise the importance of a robust EDI program to support an inclusive workplace culture. We share insights from our new EDI Leading Practices Guide and discuss the importance of a fit-for-purpose strategy that suits your unique organisational needs.
November 28, 2023 · By Embedding Project
Stories are powerful. They can shape your organisation’s culture and its decision-making. Yet, many companies are not sure how to best leverage storytelling for sustainability. We share what we have learned and point you to some of our favourite resources.
March 16, 2023 · By Rachel Dekker
Your company, big or small, is expected to ensure it respects human rights across its operations and business relationships. This blog post explores the six key resources for non-experts to build your understanding and support your company’s human rights journey.
June 9, 2022 · By Embedding Project with Chief Leanne Joe
In our conversations with companies around the world, we have heard a common need: How do we build good relations with Indigenous Peoples? This third and final post in our series aims to help bridge this gap. We partnered with Chief Leanne Joe to identify resources that help you understand Indigenous truth-telling, systemic discrimination, and highlight essential business practices that can help you build long-lasting relationships founded on trust and respect.