COVID-19: Private Sector Best Practices

• From Just Capital: The COVID-19 Corporate Response Tracker: How America’s Largest Employers Are Treating Stakeholders Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
• From Globescan: Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Best Practices on Business Responses to COVID-19
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• From FoodDive: Nestlé running full time to help return ‘a calmness to the market’ amid coronavirus:
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• From Times of India: Many companies take 90-day no-layoff pledge
• From Levi Strauss & Co.: LS&Co. Commits $3 Million to COVID-19 Response
• From Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: México: 35 empresas modifican operaciones y crean cadena de suministro para producir 15,000 ventiladores en respuesta al Covid-19
• From Triponel Consulting: Company Responses to Tackle Covid-19 and Company Responses to Protect Workers in Their Value Chain
• From Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: Moral Bankruptcy During Times of Crisis: H&M Just Thought Twice Before Triggering Force Majeure Clauses with Suppliers, and Here’s Why You Should Too
• From PepsiCo: PepsiCo To Provide Enhanced Benefits To All U.S. Employees And Additional Compensation To U.S. Frontline During Unprecedented Health Pandemic
• From The New York Times: Walmart, Uber and Others Tweak Sick-Leave Policies as Coronavirus Spreads
• From Forbes: Dallas Mavericks Pledge To Pay Arena Staff For Six Postponed Home Games
• From Naodemita: Diante do caos causado pela Pandemia, e com o objetivo de garantir os empregos, algumas empresas aderiram ao Manifesto “Não Demita”. Iniciativa criada por empresas para empresas
• From Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI): COVID-19: Labour Rights in Global Supply Chains – Impacts and Responsibilities
• From Starbucks: Navigating Through COVID-19
• From MassLive.com: Keurig Dr Pepper to donate millions of cups of coffee to 250 hospitals amidst coronavirus pandemic, including 21 in Massachusetts
• From El Heraldo de Chihuahua: Reúnen a empresas agrícolas vs el Covid-19
• From El Financiero: Walmart adelantará pagos a pequeñas empresas para apoyarlas por COVID-19
• From Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: Colombia: Iniciativas empresariales para responder a la emergencia del Covid-19 en el país; estudio de fundación da seguimiento
• From Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: América Latina: Órganos internacionales, incluyendo el Grupo de trabajo de la ONU sobre empresas y derechos humanos destacan el papel empresarial ante el Covid-19
• From Ganaz: One Employer’s COVID-19 Playbook
• From Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI): COVID-19: The Body Shop’s initial ethical trade response

Multistakeholder

1. From Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: Principles for Responsible Investment forms signatory groups to develop responses to COVID-19: one for short-term, another for future recovery phase
2. From International Cocoa Initiative: COVID-19: ICI’s response to protect cocoa communities and staff
3. From Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: América Latina y el Caribe: Proyecto CERALC plantea brindar apoyo al sector empresarial y otros actores para afrontar la crisis de COVID-19

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