Day: 16 March 2024

PRCA calls for examples of good practice in working towards gender equality

Stuart Mitchell

On this years International Women’s Day 2024 the PRCA issued a call for examples of good practice within the PR industry in working towards gender equality and combating misogyny. The trade association will compile a set of case studies on topics such as: flexible working, leave for parents and carers, recruitment, training and promotion, equal pay and policies on supporting colleagues who are, for example, going through the menopause. The work is being led by the PR and Communications Professional Board and the PRCA Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board (EIAB).…

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WARC Global Ad Trends: Sports media rights to reach $61bn this year but a fragmented media landscape poses dilemmas for advertisers

Stuart Mitchell

At a time when marketers are increasingly reliant on sport for mass reach, the sector faces fragmentation. Live sports rights are splintering between broadcast, over-the-top (OTT or streaming) and mobile apps, while social platforms are rising in importance for fans. Sports media in the era of fragmentation, WARC Media’s latest Global Advertising Trends report, examines sport’s new media landscape, the challenges and opportunities for brand advertisers and how rights holders plan to sustain the economics of sport in the years ahead.  Alex Brownsell, Head of Content, WARC Media, says: “Sport is…

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Social investment arm of the Big Issue Group opens up applications for second cohort of social enterprises in London

Stuart Mitchell

Big Issue Invest (BII), the investment arm of the Big Issue Group (BIG), has opened up for applications to the second round of an investment programme, aimed at up to 20 new and early-stage social enterprises in London.  Power Up London is an accelerator programme for London-based, diverse-led, early-stage socially impactful organisations addressing social and/or environmental issues and providing services to underrepresented communities.   The programme is delivered by BII with funding by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda to invest…

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Businesses call on French government to up support for the EV transition

Stuart Mitchell

Global non-profit Climate Group, alongside 11 of the biggest fleet operators in France, have written to the French government urging them to throw their support behind the EV transition to boost economic competitiveness and reduce air pollution.   With the government set to introduce stronger green quotas on corporate fleets, businesses including Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Danfoss and Schneider Electric are urging the French government to offer their full support to the EU-wide 2035 deadline to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans, along with a raft of…

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ILO releases 2024 report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

Stuart Mitchell

The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), which is a cornerstone of the ILO‘s supervisory system on international labour standards, has published its annual report . The report provides an independent expert analysis of the extent to which each ILO Member State’s law and practice are in conformity with ratified ILO Conventions. It outlines how Member States are fulfilling the obligations they have freely undertaken under the ILO Constitution in relation to international labour standards. It also provides a brief account of its interactive exchange with…

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