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Norway
2. The State duty to protect human rights 2.8 Free-trade agreements and investment contracts [page 26] Norway is bound by reciprocal obligations through its membership of international trade organisations such as EFTA and WTO. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries has the overall responsibility for bilateral free trade agreements (EFTA) and investment contracts, while…
United Kingdom
The UK 2013 NAP The UK 2013 NAP does not contain a reference to GP9. The UK 2016 updated NAP 2. State’s Duty to Protect Human Rights [pages 10-11] Government commitments 18. The Government will do the following to reinforce its implementation of its commitments under Pillar 1 of the UNGPs: (…) (vii) Support the…
France
II- Businesses’ Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Introduction [page 37] The NAP refers to framework agreements on by citing the CSR Platform’s recommendation of November 2014 to “encourage the generalization and strengthening of International Framework Agreements including criteria for human rights respect, measures to ensure regular monitoring of their effective implementation and a mechanism of…
United States
The National Action Plan Leading by Example Outcome 1.2: Utilise U.S. Law, Multilateral Agreements, and Diplomacy to Promote and Enforce High Standards [page 9] New Action Enhanced Enforcement of U.S. Laws Relating to Forced Labor or Convict Labor: As a result of the February 2016 enactment by the President of the Trade Facilitation and Trade…
US
Outcome 2.1: Enhance the Value of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on RBC New Actions [page 14] “Promoting Worker Voice throughout Global Supply Chains: DOL, State, and USAID will promote worker voice and empowerment throughout global supply chains and will commit to: (1) building innovative tools to empower workers to directly report to relevant Departments concerns in federal…
Sweden
Annex: Measures taken In 2013, the Swedish Government adopted a platform for Swedish action on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The issue of business and human rights has received considerable attention in recent years. The following examples describe some measures already taken in accordance with this policy. The State as actor [page 29] Sweden has entered…
UK
The UK 2016 NAP notes the importance of ‘personal freedom’ and ‘democratic freedoms’ in the Introduction.
Switzerland – Freedom of Association
2 National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2020-23 2.2 Pillar 2: the corporate responsibility to respect human rights … as part of the UN Global Impact, a number of Swiss companies have voiced their commitment to respecting the freedom of association and recognise the right to collective bargaining in countries where these rights…
France
I. The Obligation of the State to protect Human Rights 8. Trade and Investment Agreements [pages 19-23] In its 2013 opinion, the CNCDH underlined that “the need for coherence should guide France’s foreign policy” and recommended that, in accordance with Guiding Principle no.10, “the Government support and promote the aforementioned instruments within multilateral institutions dealing…
Belgium
PLANNED ACTIONS: Action point 8, Encourager les accords-cadres internationaux [Encourage international framework agreements] states “in the course of 2017, the Federal Public Service of Employment, Labor and Social Dialogue will organize a seminar on international framework agreements to assess the issues and scope of these transnational collective negotiations. This seminar will be an opportunity to…
Sweden
There is no direct reference to the freedom of association in the Swedish NAP, but reference is made to freedoms generally, trade unions, and collective agreements. 1 The State duty to protect human rights [page 10] Swedish legislation to protect human rights “Human rights are protected in Swedish legislation primarily via the constitutional regulations in…
Colombia
The State Duty to Protect Human Rights Inter-institutional coordination [page 10] The State has multiple public policies affecting business activities from various fields (regulation, monitoring, penalty, support, etc.). Consistency is required between such activities and the inclusion of a common human rights protection and respect based approach. Such inter-institutional coordination will aim at defining shared…
Poland – Freedom of Association
2017-2020 NATIONAL ACTION PLAN Pillar I: The state’s duty to protect human rights 1. Regulations relating to business and human rights under Polish law [page 9] The principles of labour law also include collective rights, namely the freedom of association of employees and employers (Article 18) and the right of employees to participate in the…
Poland
Introduction 3. Actions taken to align NAPs with the UN Guiding Principles [page 8] Through the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles, the NAP primarily aims to enhance the protection of human rights of individuals and to enable them to seek justice when their rights are violated by business. By describing the government’s actions to…
Norway
ILO Core Conventions [page 31]: Freedom of association (Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, and Convention No. 98 on the Application of the Principles of the Right to Organise and to Bargain Collectively).
Netherlands
The Dutch NAP includes a single reference to freedom of association. 3.1 An active role for the government Level playing field [page 15] “The Netherlands is also committed to universal ratification of the ILO’s fundamental labour standards: … freedom of association.”
Italy
I. Statement of Commitment [page 5] (…) To protect human rights, Italy undertakes to: – Coordinate the implementation of the present NAP with the 17 Goals of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and engage for a stronger national adherence to human rights and sustainable development in its three dimension – economic, social and…
Lithuania
Objective 3: ensuring access to effective remedy A. Implemented measures [page 10] 5. “Improvement of collective dispute regulation. The aims is to held discussions with social partners to determine the need for revision of provisions regulating collective bargaining and to encourage parties to establish a mechanism for settling disputes at company level. An amendment to…
Netherlands
3. Results of the consultations and government response 3.2 Policy coherence [page 16] It became apparent from the consultations that the government sometimes conveys conflicting messages about CSR and human rights – for example about the most important norms, and which ministry is responsible for which part of the policy. For civil society and implementing…