Due date: 28th October, 2022

Assignment 2

Due date: 28th October, 2022

Word length: 1800 words

In text citation with Havard style referencing, 15 references

Context

Inequality within and among nations continues to be a significant concern despite progress in and efforts at narrowing disparities of opportunity, income, and power. The United Nations Global Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact that aims to encourage businesses and firms worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to annually report on their implementation. The Compact is a principle-based framework for businesses, outlining ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption.

In regard to labour the four principles are:

Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.

Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour.

Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and

Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.

Task

Choose an Australian organisation who has been reported for violating one of the 4 principles and:

1. Analyse the organisation in regard to their conduct.

2. Identify areas that need to be resolved so that working conditions for employees are more ethical, sustainable and compliant with the Compact Principles on Labour.

3. Develop strategies that could assist in improving their approach to ethical employment relations, and

4. Discuss the impact that these strategies would have on the overall employment relationship within that organisation.

Instructions

Students needs to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between ethics and employment relations, and how Australian organisations currently conduct themselves in this space.

Structure

A proposed structure for the assessment is:

1. Introduction.

2. Discuss the UN Global Compact and the importance of the four Labour Principles.

3. Outline the chosen organisation.

4. Detail and analyse the unethical conduct that violated one of the four UN Global Compact Principles on Labour.

5. Identify key areas that the organisation needs to improve so that working conditions for employees are more ethical and sustainable.

6. Recommendations.

7. Conclusion.

8. Reference List.