Yolanda Díaz kinds a fee of consultants to demand extra social duty for firms | Economy | EUROtoday

“Milton Friedman wrote in 1970 that the sole social responsibility that exists in companies is the increase in benefits. He was not right. Companies must have an area with their countries, with human rights, with well -being in the world.” With these phrases, the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, the group of consultants to which he has commissioned and updates the regulatory framework “with which to give a boost to the social responsibility of companies (CSR)” in Spain has introduced. He has carried out this Tuesday in Madrid, in an act during which the group coordinator, the Professor of Labor Law and Social Security on the University of Seville Jesús Cruz Villalón has additionally participated.

Díaz has not come into particulars about which regulatory modifications shall be derived from this fee, however it has specified that it is going to be the earlier step to open the dialogue about it with social brokers. “They will prepare a diagnostic and proactive report that updates the CSR approach in our country and in the European framework,” the Ministry of Labor specifies. During the subsequent months (they have to current their conclusions and afternoon in December), consultants will take worldwide tips because the Europe 2024 Basis on due diligence, “in which objectives are marked both in terms of labor and social human rights and the environment,” says the Ministry. “The Commission will analyze and update the regulatory framework with which to give impulse to CSR. The existing strategies and action plans will be analyzed and it will be sought to align it with the principles of social justice, ecological transition and democracy at work,” provides work.

In line along with her typical speech, the second vp has spoken of a “pending reform”, the enterprise, who believes that she should battle “the autarkic conception” of many firms. It was expressed in comparable phrases by launching one other professional fee in February, which has the fee to put the foundations for a legislation of democracy in firms. Its goal is that unions have voice within the Board of Directors. “Companies must commit to democracy, with human rights, with social balance. The commission we launched today has to be a country goal. We will be a reference in Europe,” added Díaz.

The head of labor desires that “when buying a textile garment in any multinational” the buyer has the assure that “labor, union and human rights are respected, that no one is exploited and that there is a responsibility with the climatic emergency.” “At this time,” Díaz continued, “makes more sense than ever; the moment is now, Europe must be the advancement of rights.”

In addition to Cruz Villalón, who will act as a coordinator, the Commission is made up of the professor of Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid, Margarita Baraño; the Professor of Labor Law of the University of Salamanca Wilfredo Sanguineti; The Professor within the Department of Applied Economics of the UNED Marta de la Cuesta González, the physician in Economic and Business Sciences María del Mar Alonso-Almeida; the University Professor of Business Management Beatriz Fernándezolit; the UNED professor within the space of ​​utilized financial system Orencio Vázquez Oteo; the director of the National Center for Scientific Research of France (Center National of the Recherche Scientifique) and the Center for Comparative Law of Labor and Social Security on the University of Bordeaux, Isabelle Daugareilh; The Professor of Labor Law on the University of Ferrara Silvia Borelli and the professor in Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability of the University of Iceland Lára Jóhannsdóttir.