This article describes how ESG controversies are arising when companies fail to provide adequate workers' rights.
US investors are keying to issues important to workers like compensation, benefits, health, and safety. When Republican leaders fight ESG investments in their states, they may be alienating some of the constituents they need most.While the climate crisis is often the first thing we think of when environmental, social, and governance investing is the topic, the environment isn’t the only concern of socially conscious investors in the US.
A beneficiary of sustainable investing that Republicans may have overlooked is the US worker. The majority of US citizens surveyed by, a nonprofit research group, say paying workers a fair, living wage should be the top focus of the biggest US companies. The next topics of concern that emerged in this survey are creating jobs, acting ethically at the leadership level, protecting worker health and safety, and supporting workforce retention, advancement, and training.
Retail workers at a Home Depot store in northeast Philadelphia filed a petition on September 20 with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union. Their request covers As part of that thinking, Lazard Asset Management said it has worked with a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a
Two Sigma, a quantitative hedge fund, has invested in companies like Penn Foster Inc., which provide workers with computer skills and other specialized training.
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