Liontrust signs up to ShareAction's initiative on workers' rights

The Workforce Disclosure Initiative

Liontrust has become a signatory to ShareAction's Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI), which aims to improve the quality of jobs globally.

The initiative already boasts more than 125 institutional investors as signatories, with combined assets of over $14trn.  The WDI pressures companies globally to produce between data on how they manage their staff and their supply chain of workers, including such issues as health and safety, workers' rights, diversity and wage levels. Last week, it renewed its demand for companies across the world to come forward with better data, which allow investors to "engage with companies in support of smart management of human capital as well as about their exposure to the risks of poor workfor...