Corporate Responsibility, page 4
News on corporate responsibility and the NGO sector
Sale of locally sourced foodstuffs sprouts
Some companies understand that focusing on people and environment can be part of their business.
Talking corporate responsibility
New Business Leaders Forum head on ethics, diversity, transparency.
Excellent Employer: HSH
“The employer-employee relationship does not end here at the plant’s gate,” says Timotej Husár, marketing manager of the HSH company, which offers above-standard benefits to its employees.
Green Award: GreenCoop (big company)
The agricultural company GreenCoop, from southern Slovakia, delivers more than 10 million kilograms of home-grown tomatoes to the market annually.
Brewery enacts green plan
Heineken Slovensko gets top Via Bona award for big firms
Good Community Partner: Obnova
The small construction company employing 15 people but having many more to cooperate with it, resides in the historical town of Banská Štiavnica – which is symptomatic, as it deals with reconstruction of tangible cultural heritage.
Excellent Employer: Ares (honourable mention)
The Ares company is longest-operating company in Slovakia for removing architectural barriers and also one of the oldest sheltered workshops employing disabled people.
Green Award: JRK Waste Management (SMEs)
The average Slovak household produces more than 300 kilograms of waste each year.
Good Community Partner: VSE Holding
Although energy or environmental protection belong among priorities of the Východolsovenská Energetika Holding (VSE Holding) power distributor, it notices also the problems of eastern Slovakia and is well aware of how urgent their solving is.
Lawyers pursuing change
Law firm TaylorWessing wins top Via Bona award for SMEs
Fair Player in the Market: PayLess Consulting
Banská Bystrica-based company Payless Consulting helps its clients to better orient themselves with the telecom services they use and to optimise them in order to save money.
Public’s Award: Dobre&Dobré
Slavomír Kováč, aged 36, was homeless for a period of time staying in the Bratislava area of Železná Studienka.
Supporter of Volunteering: Hewlett-Packard Slovakia
Not everyone can spend their old age in their families and in the homes in which they grew up.
Pontis awards responsible firms
THE PONTIS Foundation handed out the 16th annual ViaBona awards for companies doing business in a responsible way on March 17, with the top awards going to Heineken Slovakia and law firm TaylorWessing e/n/w/c .
Mobile educators to help deaf children again
SPECIAL educators will lend help this year to families with deaf children within the 4th year of the Mobile Educator programme.
Fairtrade unknown to Slovaks
SLOVAKS do not know the Fairtrade mark, which seeks to sell products and other goods at a price that offers farmers in developing and poor countries a chance to make a living from their production.
Whistleblower law is weak in practice
Employees reporting corruption eligible for protection but inspectorates can’t keep up.
Banks support culture, health, etc
IN 2014, non-profit activities of banks were dominated by cultural and charity projects. Banks supported hundreds of socially beneficial projects, usually from several life spheres simultaneously.
Education, health draw philanthropists
PHILANTHROPIC activities are gradually becoming a natural part of the corporate life of companies active in Slovakia.
Pontis to award responsible firms
Nominations for the Via Bona Slovakia corporate award for 2015 opened.
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