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Looming questions about Qatar Airlines, a class action about flight credits, heated questioning in a Senate inquiry and a lawsuit by the competition and consumer watchdog trouble Qantas over the past weeks.
Assistant professor Sarah Federman of the University of Baltimore discusses how companies handle their historical misdeeds, and what that means for employees and customers. From firms that backed slave owners to companies that transported Holocaust victims, many legacy companies can find they played a role in past transgressions. Federman makes...
Woolworths is replacing a key measure of retail productivity with a reputation score in its formula for setting executive bonuses in a bid to rebuild trust. Following a review conducted by PwC, Woolworths plans to replace the sales per square metre metric with a reputation metric measured externally by...
Facebook has announced new efforts to combat climate crisis misinformation on its platform, including by expanding its climate science centre to provide more reliable information, investing in organisations that fight misinformation, and launching a video series to highlight young climate advocates on Facebook and Instagram. But critics say...
The US National Council on Occupational Safety and Health has included Amazon in its “Dirty Dozen” list of the most dangerous employers in America. Earlier this year New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Amazon for inadequately protecting workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Workplace issues are being factored into...
Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges. More Fortune 500 companies have adopted emissions targets and one in five have science-based targets. At least one fifth of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have now made some kind of “net zero” pledge to...
Investment giant BlackRock Inc. has more than doubled its support for shareholder proposals this year, throwing its weight behind efforts to oust corporate directors and force reporting on greenhouse gas emissions, lobbying and diversity. BlackRock's 2020-21 Investment Stewardship Report reveals the investment firm sided with...
National Australia Bank chief executive Ross McEwan pledged to consider the findings of the International Energy Agency’s climate report in the bank’s upcoming September policy on oil and gas. A coalition of climate groups claiming to represent one million Australians sent a letter to each of the Big Four banks,...
On this episode of In Conversation, Llew Gartrell, Senior Manager Government Relations at Stockland, and Melanie McMillan, Senior Associate at the Centre for Corporate Affairs, join the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns to discuss the top news stories from March and April 2021.
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