finance assignment

Social - Employee Health, Safety, and Wellbeing

Outline:

· Agenda

· Human Capital Management

· Recruiting and retaining qualified candidates; offering competitive salaries, benefits, and development/training opportunities; employee engagement and employee satisfaction/happiness/productivity

· Work Lifestyle

· American work-life balance, paid parental leave, average work hours, paid vacation and sick time, absenteeism, employee turnover, etc., compared to other industrialized countries (india)

· Job Hazards -

· Workplace hazards; fatality and injury statistics; sectors and activities with high occupational health and safety (OHS) risks 

· Employee HSW during COVID 19

· UN SDG

· Which SDGs are relevant for this issue? By investing in companies that are addressing this issue head-on, which SDG goals or targets would you support?

· Industries of Focus

· Implications for select sectors/industries and regions, case studies/examples (try to choose industries and companies where this particular ESG issue is material)

1. E.g AMAZON (?)

· Investor Perspective

. How does it relate to ESG? How does workplace safety factor into ESG ratings?

. How does it impact investments and why should the investor care?

. Noteworthy Actions

3. Recent and noteworthy actions by investors (shareholder engagement and activism) in an effort to solve/tackle this particular issue.