{"id":5503,"date":"2021-01-26T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrmcouncil.org\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:26:10","slug":"corporate-citizenship-and-refugee-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrmcouncil.org\/es\/projects\/corporate-citizenship-and-refugee-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Citizenship & Refugee Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Refugee & Migration Council (WRMC) and Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC) share a common interest in advancing the goal of a more supportive national response for refugees and migrant workers. And we believe the Canadian business sector can both be transformative in and benefit from this effort. For this reason, the WRMC and the ICC seek to share our respective strengths, experience, and resources with the goal of developing and advancing a set of CSR principles in collaboration with corporate entities that are already committed to the hiring of refugee and migrant workers, and which can be disseminated to the wider business community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The set of principles we develop with business leaders can then be codified into a publicly available set of “best practices” in the hiring and employment of refugees and migrant workers \u2014 a first in Canada and a huge step in creating more equitable workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some good examples of successful efforts to institutionalize new corporate CSR \u201ccodes of conducts\u201d standards, which this initiative aims to build upon. For example, the guiding principles of the UN Social Compact that were developed by Harvard Professor John Ruggie who also served as the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises are instructive. The principles are directed at helping to integrate the management of human rights risks into contract negotiations on investment projects in host state entities and foreign business investors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A related effort involving hiring practices and labor standards regarding refugees and migrant workers is desirable because a growing number of major corporations in Western countries \u2014 notably Canada, the United States and some European countries \u2014 are already formally committed to employing refugees and migrant workers in their labor force and this group of companies could serve as a good \u201ccoalition\u201d to further institutionalize responsible hiring and employment  practices in the private sector. Accordingly, this partnership aims to promote and help institutionalize a set CSR \u201cbest practices\u201d by developing clear hiring and employment standards and practices regarding refugees and migrant workers. Among the questions we seek to answer: <\/p>\n\n\n\n