The#KuToo movementreflected concerns over gender equality but its existence also highlighted the growing willingness of Japanese employees to speak up on everything from bullying to overwork, in a ...country with an unemployment rate of just 2.4 per cent that suffers acute labour shortages. Japan’s labour market is going through a period of profound change, driven by activism, legislation and the huge demographic shift that will see its population fall every year for the foreseeable future. Add in the stagnation of take-home pay after ever-rising social security costs, and workers still feel they have little to shout about, said Mr Gunji.
With a quarter of global funds under management run with these ESG considerations, according to consultancy McKinsey, and many money managers signatories to the UN Principles of Responsible ...Investment, the whole sector risks becoming an investment wilderness. According to research by Morgan Stanley, 80 per cent of Vale’s top-20 investors and 64 per cent of its top-50 are signatories to the UN Principles of Responsible Investment, which means they must incorporate ESG factors into their investment processes. Glencore declined to comment on the share sale by Sarasin but said it supported the development of green technology and recognised global climate change science. ...investors face a conundrum, as these big diversified miners also produce the copper, cobalt, nickel and lithium that will be needed as the world’s shifts to cleaner forms of energy and transportation.
The national security strategy, which is required by law, is seen as a blueprint for US diplomatic and military leadership as they plan how to tackle global threats. “Doing so has a limiting effect ...on President Trump’s ability to elicit co-operation on North Korea or trade issues.” During the 2000 presidential race, George W Bush criticised Bill Clinton for having called China a “strategic partner” and instead labelled it a “strategic competitor”.
