September
  2006
ABOUT US

The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative, launched in 1991, exists to promote a conversation between business and the community on values and ethics: promoting life humanly in our businesses, our communities, our planet. It aims to create a space where these issues can be discussed and researched in mutually supportive ways. It seems to promote better communication for the sake of better outcomes for us all.

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457 visas
The ACTU's campaign that the WorkChoices legislation is designed to reduce the minimum wage and conditions is receiving further injections of steroids as more details of the controversial 457 visas become public.

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Insider trading
Insider trading and collusion are difficult crimes to detect and prosecute. There is evidence that a lot of money is involved. Many takeover bids are preceded by peaks in trading which could indicate some form of insider trading.

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Trouble in HP's boardroom

The fish rots from the head, so they say. It is a commonplace of organisational culture that the tone is set from the top. HP has been a global leader in standards of good governance, but reputations can be fragile. The HP board has become a spectacle of in-fighting, leaks, virulent personality conflicts and, it appears, criminal activity.

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Enhancing Corporate Responsibility

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has produced its report of its inquiry into whether the Government needs to act to improve Corporate Social Responsibility in Australia.
John Sweeney

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  John Eales
» Responsibility: ethics, business, society and the environment
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