A damning report by PIRC here into the failure of many UK food processing plants (the UK's biggest manufacturing sector) to properly report the deaths of their workers from Covid_19 to the Health & Safety Executive and to take effective action to protect them.
Private sector pension trustees and Local Government Pension committees (and boards) ought to be pressing their fund managers and advisors to be taking this issue seriously. The reputational and legal risk to investors is potentially huge.
It is about time the "S" in ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) is taken as seriously as "Environment" and "Governance".
We have the term "#GreenWashing" to describe the prentence by some fund managers and advisors that they take Environmental issues seriously.
What can we call those who don't take any real notice of #social issues?
