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CCC Position Paper: Omnibus Proposal

Re-centering workers and human rights in the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and Reporting Directives

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Model Agreement for Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Protection and Grievances

In light of increasing legislation on human rights due diligence, more and more companies, industry- and multistakeholder initiatives are setting up operational-level non-judicial grievance mechanisms. The model agreement, developed by the PYW union committee, provides a benchmark for a non-judicial grievance mechanism covering FOA's core labour and human rights and the right to collective bargaining. It is meant to support efforts from unions to develop Enforceable Brand Agreements and, importantly, to counter weaker efforts from brands and business-led initiatives by providing a yardstick against which to measure them.

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Our Statements

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CSO Textile Coalition Priorities for the 2024-29 EU Legislature

The EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles adopted in 2022 and its complementary parliamentary resolution represented a landmark moment on the road to more accountability in the textile sector. The much-needed policies set out in the Textile Strategy which were initiated during the last mandate must continue to be developed and implemented in the direction of environmental and social justice. This statement from October 2024, by six unions and NGOs sets expectations and priorities for the new legislative cycle.

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Omnibus proposal will create costly confusion and lower protection for people and the planet

On 8 November 2024, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced she would introduce a proposal to amend three key pillars of the European Green Deal through an Omnibus law: the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the Taxonomy Regulation. As members of civil society, human rights and environmental defenders, trade unions and climate activists in this statement published on 14 January 2025, we call on the European Commission to actively protect these EU corporate accountability laws, reaffirm the official timeline for their transposition and implementation, and be fully transparent about the Omnibus process.

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The Big EU Deregulation

On 10 March 2025, over 350 organisations raise that a disastrous Omnibus proposal erodes EU’s corporate accountability commitments and slashes human rights and environmental protections.

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