Recommended Tools and Guidance Materials
General
Raising the Bar: Creating Value with the United Nations Global Compact (June 2004)This publication lays out a performance model rooted in a total quality management approach to assist businesses in putting the Global Compact into practice. Raising the Bar collects and categorizes a wealth of corporate responsibility tools, good practices and case studies in a structure familiar to anyone aware of business excellence models. The book further demonstrates that values create value - the leadership commitment to the Global Compact can impact the boardroom and the shop floor, public image and the balance sheet.
GRI Labour Practices and Decent Work Indicators
Rules of the Game - A brief introduction to International Labour Standards
Child Labour
IPEC: Child Labour Monitoring Resource Kit December 2005
These guidelines provide information on how to design, develop and operate child labour
monitoring systems along with practical examples that will help to adapt the model to specific
child labour situations. The kit's contents include:
a brochure on child
labour monitoring;
an overview of child
labour monitoring; and
guidelines for
developing child labour monitoring processes.
UNICEF UK: Child Labour Resource Guide
This publication is designed to help businesses establish an appropriate response when they
suspect or find that children might be working for them or their suppliers. It will also help
businesses entering new markets or product areas within which there may be a risk of child labour
being present. This web-based resource is available free of charge.
IFC: Good Practice Note on Addressing Child Labour in the Workplace and Supply
Chain June 2002
The Practice Note seeks to provide companies with a range of basic, successful business
practices applied in addressing the issue of harmful child labor in their own workplaces and those
of their vendors and suppliers.
Forced Labour
United Nations Global Initiative to Fight
Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT): Human Trafficking: The Facts
A fact sheet helping to help raise awareness of
human trafficking
.
United Nations Global
Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT): Human Trafficking: Background Briefing
Note
This short document helps explain human trafficking in further detail, outlines the
scale of the problem, and describes how businesses may encounter the problem or be implicated. A
short description of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
especially Women and Children is also included.
ILO:
Combatting Forced Labour – Questions & Answers
This publication outlines causes and different forms of forced labour, presents international
standards for its elimination and suggest some solutions to the problem.
ILO: A Global Alliance against Forced Labour
This is a Global Report designed to deepen the reader's understanding of forced labour. It
includes information about key global trends, developments and global action to combat forced
labour.
ILO: Forced Labour Statistics
This publication provides key figures and statistics about forced labour.
ILO: Trafficking for Forced Labour
This training manual aims to raise awareness among labour inspectors, police, government
officials, employers’ organizations, trade unions and others, on trafficking, forced labour and job
placement systems. The manual follows a generic approach, but its materials are adaptable to
different situations, types of participants and different national contexts.
For more information on forced labour is available at the
ILO website.
Non-Discrimination and Diversity
Equal Opportunities
Company - Good Practice Guide
This book offers examples of measures, projects and initiatives implemented by employers
striving to create equal opportunities for women and men. The content is presented in the context
of general human resource management and grouped into the following sections: ethical norms,
employee recruitment and development, compensation policies, work-life balance, counteracting
sexual harassment and mobbing, and other measures promoting gender equality.
ILO: Tools on
Non-Discrimination and Diversity
Further ILO tools and guidance materials that can help companies to advance
non-discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.
IFC: Good Practice Note on Non-Discrimination & Equal Opportunity
A Practice Note seeking to help companies increase their understanding of the issue in a
number of key areas: recognizing types of discrimination; how and where it can occur in the
workplace; obligations under national law and other international provisions; practical approaches
and options for addressing workplace discrimination; benefits derived from diversifying the
workforce.
Other Labour Issues
IFC: Good Practice Note on Managing Retrenchment
This practice note provides guidance for companies, especially those operating in emerging
markets, on how best to plan and manage significant job losses. A well-managed process can help
avoid a host of problems and result in better outcomes for the company, its employees, and the
wider community. It contains a range of good practice measures that can help companies think
through the key issues, avoid common pitfalls and hidden problems, and design a comprehensive
retrenchment plan.
(Last updated on 6 August 2008)
