Social Topics
Getting Started on Rights and Wellbeing at Work
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.
Getting Started on Tackling Modern Slavery and Protecting Human Dignity and Integrity
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.
What Is Precarious Work? (And how can businesses play a role in preventing it?)
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.
Getting Started on Company-Worker Relations
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.
Key Resources on Navigating Feelings of Fear and Loss in EDI Initiatives
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.
Upholding the Human Right to a Living Wage Is Essential for Business
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.
Inclusive Workplace Culture: The Case for Integrating EDI Across Your Organisation
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.
Top Resources to Leverage Storytelling for Sustainability
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.
Top 6 Human Rights Resources for Non-experts
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.
How to Build Good Relations with Indigenous Peoples: An Interview Series (Part 3)
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.
How to Build Good Relations with Indigenous Peoples: An Interview Series (Part 2)
May 24, 2022 · By Embedding Project with Chief Leanne Joe
In our conversations with companies around the world, we have noticed a common refrain: building good relations with Indigenous Peoples is essential, but we aren’t sure how or where to start. This is the second entry in a three-part series that aims to help bridge this gap. In this instalment, we discuss some of the specific actions that your company can take towards embedding an understanding of Indigenous worldviews into how you operate and your approach to building capacity with Indigenous communities.
How to Build Good Relations with Indigenous Peoples: An Interview Series (Part 1)
May 10, 2022 · By Embedding Project with Chief Leanne Joe
In our conversations with companies around the world, we have noticed a common refrain: building good relations with Indigenous Peoples is essential, but we aren’t sure how or where to start. This is the first entry in a three-part series that aims to help bridge this gap. In this instalment, we unpack the importance of understanding Indigenous worldviews, taking the time to understand the needs of their Peoples, and acting with deference and sincerity towards building positive and long-lasting relationships in order to advance reconciliation.
5 Key Resources for Effective Investment in Communities
July 27, 2021 · By Rachel Dekker
Many companies choose to invest in their local communities, both as a way of demonstrating their commitment to sustainability and to manage community-related risk. This blog post highlights key resources to help your company make meaningful and strategic contributions in the communities where you operate.
Community Resilience: Why It Matters to Companies and 3 Things Your Company Can Do
April 27, 2021 · By Rachel Dekker
The increasing pressure on companies to account for their impacts on the environment and on communities has been hard to miss. And many companies are making an effort to “do good” in the community, but they are often unsure how best to go about it. This blog post helps companies to figure out how they can contribute.
