Ergon

Managing grievances on labour and human rights

Ergon developed and operated a complaint management process on sustainability issues, including supply chain labour, for the London Olympics. Our case study on how this was set up and how complaints were addressed is available here.
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Latest blogs

Recent blogs from Ergon include: progress on homeworkers, cocoa and child labour, Assessing risk in supply chains, learning from London 2012 and mapping codes of conduct for the World Bank.
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Latest Ergon Update April 2013

New projects, research and services from Ergon on measuring the business benefits of women's employment, assessing the risk of child labour in cocoa, human rights and the financial sector, wages and supply chain management.
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Assessing the impact of codes of conduct

Kirsten Newitt sets out the key messages from her World Bank-commissioned research paper on the role of private sector voluntary initiatives in development, particularly by promoting compliance with labour standards. Read the blog here.
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Learning and development

We offer a range of services which support and deliver learning and development programmes for clients on human rights, ethical trade, labour standards and cross-cutting issues such as gender and migration.
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Impact of trade on labour

The European Commission has published a major Ergon research report that explores how best to assess and monitor the impacts of trade on employment, with a special focus on the involvement of social partners.
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About Us

Ergon is a specialist consultancy working on labour and human rights, employment, gender and development.

We work with companies, organisations and membership groups that are well placed to promote rights-based development, through investment, trade, commercial supply chains, development cooperation or advocacy. The value of our work lies in translating standards and principles into practical advice and activities specific to our clients’ situations.

Ergon Associates Ltd, 8 Coldbath Square. London. EC1R 5HL. +44 (0)20 7713 0386.

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Social auditing in the dock In a powerful new report, the US union federation, the AFL-CIO, castigates the social auditing industry as an expensive failure. Unions have had a long-standing aversion to unilateral company codes...
Changing attitudes to homeworking Homeworking remains an important but often hidden element within many value chains. But Pins Brown is encouraged that there is now greater acceptance and acknowledgement of homeworking among brands...
Monitoring child labour in cocoa Extensive efforts have been made over the past decade to address endemic child labour in cocoa cultivation in West Africa, but progress is slow. A key issue is getting reliable data on the scale and...
Knowing where the risk is The UK's Gangmasters Licensing Authority is proposing to target its inspection resources on higher risk companies. But how should risk be assessed, and what information is useful and credible when...
Wages in agriculture Ergon has worked on labour issues in agriculture from our inception. We work on very different global agricultural value chains, including export horticulture and floriculture, as well as commodities...