Attitudes among business leaders about the relationship between business and social change are shifting. On the one hand, executives understand that their businesses have an important role to play in solving social problems. On the other hand, the value of corporate social responsibility isn’t clear and many believe a new approach that delivers more return …
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As corporates start making their annual statutory filings, the government-appointed expert panel is expected to finalise next month its suggestions for better monitoring of CSR under the new companies law.Under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) regime — that came into effect on April 1, 2014 — certain class of profitable companies have to shell out …
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India’s Companies Act of 2013 requires 2% of net profit of profitable firms to be spent on CSR but only 30-40% of the envisioned spending is currently being done. Why do companies lack enthusiasm to do CSR in India? Why is still there a section of corporate which feels that mandatory CSR is stifling and …
The rising potential of human rights cases and securities class actions, along with some new Canadian government regulations, show that if a company pays lip service to corporate social responsibility, it does so at its peril.Indeed, lawyers tell me it’s becoming standard for them to include a review of a target company’s public statements on …
Endorsing the mandatory corporate social responsibility under the Companies Act-2013, Justice Madan Lokur of the Supreme Court on Saturday said that it was a step towards realisation of directive principles of state policy enshrined in Constitution.He was speaking on new provision (which mandates that corporates must spend 2 per cent of profit on CSR) at …
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