Wednesday, October 25th
• 19:00pm –21:00pm Welcome Reception
Thursday, October 26th
• 8:00 am –9:00am Conference Registration
• 9:00am—10:45am Opening Keynote
The Key Challenges in China
The Opinion leader and legal makers from domestic and ILO share the disciplines of economics, politics, sociology, law, foundemental rights and principles at work; they will talk of the unprecedented and great economic, political, and social changes which China will experience, as well as the major risks and opportunities to be faced in the process.
Speakers
Mr. Roger PLANT, Director of the Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, International Labor Organization.
Prof. CHANG Kai, Director, Institute of Labor Relation, Renmin University of China
• 10:45am—11:00am Break
• 11:00am—12:30pm Plenary Panel I
CSR Movement and Its Future
The movements of global economics and international trade are strongly affecting China’s business sphere, its consumers and policy makers; CSR is now more and more at the heart of the competitive strength of Chinese corporations.This trend of CSR development in China and worldwide, as well as the major challenges to be confronted, will be presented here from various standpoints, i.e. those of labor relations, environment, and industry.
Speakers
Mr. Fred DUBEE, Senior Advisor, UN Global Compact
Dr. LIU Kaiming, Executive Director, The Institute of Contemporary Observation
Mr. William Valentino, General Manager, Corporate Communications, Greater China, Bayer
• 12：30pm—13:50pm Lunch
• 14:00pm-16:00pm Breakout Session I
Integrating CSR into Risks Management in Supply Chain
Many multinational companies have a long and complex supply chain in China, they start to take a systemic approach to control the potential legal and social risks, strive to prevent failures in corporate social, environmental and ethical performance that damage the companies’ interests, they rarely share resources or work together in planning and decision-making. Participants in this session explore a leading global companies’ effort to integrate CSR and risk management, and how to benefit its suppliers.
Speakers
Mr. Paul Wenmen, Executive Director, Asia Resource
Dr. Naoki Adachi, CEO, “Response Ability”
Mr. Hiroshi Watanabe, President, Suzuka Fuji-Xerox (Dongguan)
Improving Working Conditions in Apparel Industries.
60% of the world’s clothing is manufactured in China, however, the grand majority of the factories for this clothing are small firms, where labor is tightly concentrated. In the intensity of market competition, many factories are unable to comply with fundamental legal requirements or the standards of client conduct. The topic for this subject concerns the leaders and general managers of the world’s more prominent clothing companies, and how do they devote their efforts to improving the work conditions of their factories, and bring sustainable competitive strength to those factories.
Speakers
Dr. Mads H. JENSEN, Senior Advisor, Business and Human Rights Department, Danish Institute for Human Right
Mr. William LEE, Asian CSR Manager, Gap Inc
Mr. Zhang Yisheng, General Manager, Guangdong Kaiping Caida Garment Factory
Building CSR Management Systems in Hi-capital Industry.
The majority of evaluation system on CSR is directed at the manufacturing of this model of concentrated labor and supply chain management, and aimed at those high-capital and high-tech industries, at how they ought to establish systems for administrating CSR, which is a task many companies are just starting to attempt.The proposed topic for subject is how the high level management of Shell (oil) and Mitsubishi have obtained their success in this field.
Speakers
Dr. Boy Luethje, Professor, Institute for Sociology, Frankfurt University
Ms. Bonnie Nixon Gardiner, Global project manager for supply chain, HP
Ms. LIU Xiaowei, Deputy Director of External Affairs, Shell Companies in China
Shareholder Activism and Engagement: What Happen in China?
China’s rapidly maturing economy has attracted great quantities of foreign investment speedily to its doors, yet, more and more Western investors are being required to put the vision of CSR into practice, to balance their investment behavior.This situation not only displays the West’s funds for investment in social responsibility, but also exhibits the members of those foreign investors in the Bank of China.This will be a presentation by the investors, of CSR funds in terms of the specifics of strategy and activity in China, how investors invest, how they find a balance between profits and CSR?As well, how to utilize the tools of CSR to monitor the short-term and long-term performance of companies?
Speakers
Ms. Melissa BROWN, Executive Director, ASrIA
Mr. ADACHI Eiichiro, Senior Researcher, Center for the Strategy of Emergence, The Japan Research Institute
Dr. GUO Peiyuan, General Manager, Syntao
• 16:00pm—16:15pm Break
• 16:15pm—18:15pm Breakout Session II
Creating the Win-win partnership at the workplace: the Role of a Trade Union
As regards Chinese corporations, how can workers’ unions participate in collective* negotiations, and effectively represent workers’ interests - this is a bleak challenge.This subject invites trade unions’ experts and worker representatives to investigate together how to add force to the role of trade unions, and how to create collaborative relationships between workers and the firm development in an positive work environment.Furthermore, how to ensure the interests of workers, while at the same time achieving the firm’s sustainable development.
Speakers
Prof. QIAO Jeff, Director, China Labor Relation Institute, All China Federation of Trade Union
Dr. Dominique MULLER, Hong Kong Director, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Mr. Christopher NG, Apro Regional Secretary, Union Network International
Improving workforce healthcare: What is best practice?
Chinese factories are seriously threatening the health and safety of workers, as well as impacting the development and existence of firms.The leading company, NGO and government agency have developed systems to improve work methods and technology and so amend the health problems of work environments. From Occupational health and safety to prevent HIV, the session will show you a deeply and professional view.
Speakers
Mr. ZHOU Weidong, Director of Hong Kong/China, Business for Social Responsibility
Mr Bergson Wang, Senior Manager of Social and Environment Department, Adidas Sourcing Limited
Reducing Overtime and Increasing Wages: Case Study in China.
Forced overtime and low wages are problems that afflict a great many factories, and are topics of concern for consumers worldwide. Numerous name-brand companies have spent years searching for a solution to the problem. Three multinationals corporations have been invited to share instances of success.
Speakers
Dr Liu Kaiming,Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Observation
Mr. Topy HO,CSR Manager, Dongguan Yue Yuan Industrial Co.Ltd
Eliminating Forced Labor and Discrimination at workplace.
Forced labor and employer discrimination impede development and lower business competitiveness. To address this topic representatives from the ILO as well as multinational corporations have been invited explain some of the problems that these phenomenon cause in the workplace, as well as propose some solutions to the problems.
Speakers
Ms. GAO Yun, Legal specialist International Labour Organization (Geneva)
Prof. LI Weiwei Executive Director Center of Constitutionalism and Human Rights Center, Shenzhen University
Mr. Apo Lueng, Executive Director, Asian Monitor Resources Center
• 18:20 pm Welcomed Dinner
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