Finland Times

 

Minister of Labour Lauri Ihalainen. Photo – Lehtikuva.

Minister of Labour Lauri Ihalainen has said that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) needs to have a strong role in the promotion of corporate social responsibility.

 

“Corporate social responsibility and the regulation that accompanies it are increasingly important themes both at the national and international level. The ILO conventions that guarantee fundamental labour rights establish a legislative framework implementation of which needs to be strengthened further,” Lauri Ihalainen added.

 

The International Labour Organisation is the only UN agency with a tripartite structure including government, employer, and worker representatives.

 

“Social justice and functioning corporate social responsibility are shared goals of Finland, the ILO, and the European Union. Their implementation requires effective international cooperation. Shared global rules are also in the interests of companies”, the minister observed.

 

The Government took a stand on corporate social responsibility in a decision-in-principle made in 2012, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy.

 

In the autumn of 2014 the Government gave its approval to the National Action Plan for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

 

“All employees have the right to decent work which guarantees a decent living”, Lauri Ihalainen pointed out.

 

Decent work in global production chains will be discussed at the ILO's annual conference in the summer of 2016, said the release.