Devoir de vigilance des grandes entreprises : il est temps !
Dans un article du 10 mai 2016 au The Globe and Mail, Fred Pinto et Peter Chapman reviennent sur l’importance du devoir de vigilance pour les grandes entreprises : « Companies need to do due diligence on human rights abroad ».
Petit extrait :
New international instruments such as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as well as new reporting requirements under securities regulations are increasingly emphasizing the need for global businesses to assess their own human-rights risks, and to take steps to ensure that they are not contributing to rights violations.
In a globalized operation, failure to assess those risks in a trustworthy, transparent and effective manner is ultimately a failure of due diligence. And for a company’s investors, a failure of due diligence may lead to regulatory, legal, operational and reputational problems that could and should have been avoided.
Pour rappel, j’avais exprimé dans un billet publié sur le blogue de l’Université Laval Contact ici portant sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises la nécessité de durcir le cadre réglementaire de la RSE en consacrant un tel devoir (ici).
À la prochaine…
Ivan Tchotourian