Graebel Relocation was recently named a signatory member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative.
Companies that have signed the United Nations Global Compact are expected to align their operations and strategies with ten universally-accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary driver of globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology, and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.
“We are very proud of Graebel’s CSR program and activities,” said Bill Graebel, Chief Executive Officer. “We determined that the UN Global Compact is an ideal initiative to unify our worldwide support for progressive human rights, labour, environmental and anti-corruption actions. In the area of human rights and labour we have identified being the ‘Employer of Choice’ as one of our critical company objectives. Further as we have expanded globally we have updated many of the company’s and supply chain policies and procedures to meet and exceed local requirements and to aggressively support our commitment to fair labour practices, freedom of association and to abolish child labour. We will use our ISO 14001 environmental program to support the UN Global Compact environment principles. Over the last year’s we have strengthened our anti-bribery programs and have conducted internal and external training. Graebel has many robust programs in place and will use the UN Global Compact annual ‘Communication on Progress’ to document these programs, identify areas for improvement and to establish metrics to measure our results”.
The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact
Human Rights
Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and
Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Labour
Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and
Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
Environment
Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
Anti-Corruption
Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.