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Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct

05.09.2008 05:19    prwatch.org
We do not want children to smoke," British American Tobacco (BAT) declares on its website. But the company that describes itself as the "world's most international tobacco group" routinely violates its own voluntary international marketing and advertising standards, according to


Sorry, Whistleblowers, You're on Your Own

05.09.2008 05:19    prwatch.org
The U.S. Labor Department has only "ruled in favor of [corporate] whistleblowers 17 times out of 1,273 complaints filed since 2002," and has dismissed 841 cases. Many of the dismissals were based "on the technicality that workers at corporate subsidiaries

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