Codes of Conduct and International Labour Standards
In today´s globalized economic environment, the emergence of a social role for enterprises tells us about the demands that both states, trade union organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and single consumers put to the production. Ethical production and consumtion are more and more often demanded in public discussion all other the world, in late times also here in Finland.
What does a code of conduct mean?
You can speak about the subject on company level and also as a part of social dialogue which means discussions and agreements with labour market partners, the employers´ and the workers organizations.
We want to know in what kind of circumstances the products are made.
The main basic for all codes of conduct – should be the ILO basic conventions, and now I´m talking as a representant of the worker´s and trade unions.
The ILO conventions are f.g.
OECD guidelines –
Business for social responsibility -intren. Chamber of commerse
Social labelling -rugmark
Clean Clothes Campaign
NGOs -IEPCE ethical consumption and producttion
SA8000 standard
Codes of conduct – at what level: on company level -intern monitoring
As a part of social dialogue -extern monitoring
How fa back in the supply chain shold the codes apply
The question of realiability
What does the monitoring process consist of?
How to make codes transparent?