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a. Employees rights including the rights to unionize.
b. Procedures for handling and settling labour disputes.
c. Fair wages.
(ii)
Assess the level of organizational compliance with human rights and labour laws especially
with reference to:
a. The provision of a safe working environment.
b. Fair wages to employees.
c. The handling of employee disputes, safety issues and matters relating to employee
compensation including compensation for injury in the workplace
d. The rights to unionize, number of trade unions, the percentage of the workforce belonging to
a trade union, and the effectiveness of trade unions in resolving labour disputes
e. Number and frequency of mass industrial and labour disputes and strikes.
f. Citation and prosecution of organizations for labour and human rights violations.
g. Citation and prosecution of child labour practices.
(iii)
(iv)
Describe what organisations in your country are doing to ensure gender equality at managerial
staff levels in all the three sectors. .
Describe any sanctions against organizations for non-compliance with human rights or labour
laws and provide evidence of enforcement.
Please give detailed explanations with supporting material where applicable
QUESTION 6: What are the vocational and professional training programmes
available for different industry sectors, and who are the responsible institutions
managing this training?
INDICATORS
(i)
(ii)
Describe what vocational and professional training programmes are available in your country
for the different industry sectors and who are the responsible institutions managing this training.
Provide numbers of individuals participating in the training for each institution mentioned.
Objective 5:
Ensuring that Organizations Act as Good Corporate Citizens
An organization as well as being an economic entity is also a citizen of a country and as such,
has a moral and social standing within that country‟s society with all the responsibilities
attached to that status. As such, an organization when making decisions should consider the
impact of their decisions on their stakeholders both internal and external, the environment and
society as a whole. This objective focuses on how organisations fulfil these obligations. Good
Corporate citizenship is synonymous with corporate responsibility.
Organizations carry out corporate responsibility projects in the following categories:
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