US Investors Back Business Case for Living Wage

NEW YORK, NY — The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) today released a comprehensive report and statement addressing the systemic economic risks posed by skyrocketing executive compensation and the investor imperative to rein in excessive pay through proxy voting and engagement. ICCR’s report Excessive Executive Compensation: Investor Guidance spotlights the ways that status quo […]

Advancing a binding ILO Convention to protect platform workers, prevents a race to the bottom in labor standards, and secures fair, decent work in the digital economy NEW YORK, NY — The International Labor Organization (ILO) issued its Blue Report last week, which is a draft Convention and Recommendations related to decent work in the […]

Today, a group of institutional investors, including members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), issued a public statement of support for a recent letter from Walmart ($WMT) employees calling on the company to address widespread worker safety concerns and racial justice issues across its business. The statement also calls for Walmart to implement […]

Annual stewardship report highlights ClearBridge’s active ownership and philanthropic initiatives

Save the Date: Thursday, February 15th at 11:30 am ET to Hear about ICCR Member Proposals for the 2024 Proxy Season Join us on Thursday, 2/15 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm ET, when we will share a preview of ICCR members’ 2024 shareholder proposals and our 2024 Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide. Our webinar will help contextualize the more than 300 resolutions […]

Save the Date: Thursday, February 15th at 11:30 am ET to Hear about ICCR Member Proposals for the 2024 Proxy Season Join us on Thursday, 2/15 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm ET, when we will share a preview of ICCR members’ 2024 shareholder proposals and our 2024 Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide. Our webinar will help contextualize the more than 300 resolutions […]

Investors committed to advocating for workers’ rights have launched the Labour Rights Investor Network (LRIN), a global initiative centered on supporting labor rights as human rights. The LRIN is housed at the Global Unions’ Committee on Workers’ Capital (CWC), a committee of the International Trade Union Confederation, the Global Union Federations, and the Trade Union […]

Some change is slow. Living wage, defined as sufficient to afford a decent standard of living for the worker and his or her family in a particular place, has a storied intellectual history. Plato and Aristotle wrote about the concept of a living wage without defining it, medieval theological Thomas Aquinas called for just wages, […]

Statement endorsed by 136 investors representing US$4.5T in assets cites workforce investments as good for business and key to addressing systemic societal and economic risks. NEW YORK, NY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 2023 – The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) today released a statement signed by 136 institutional investors calling on U.S. companies, particularly those […]