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Living in chains or by clock?

THE Swiss-born French Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau said in his seminal work Social Contract, ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.’ It is a truism today but interestingly, the chains are tricky to be identified as fetters barring humans from enjoying life in freedom...

OECD launches guidelines on living wage due diligence

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, has developed a handbook to guide companies in applying the OECD due diligence framework to support living incomes and living wages in global supply chains...