Les dispositifs d'entreprise en direction des familles
This research provides an overview of the facilities proposed by French companies to help their employees, not only to reconcile work and family life, but more widely in the fulfillment of their parental responsibilities. The commitment of companies is strongly framed by the legislation and by the conventional regulations, and the companies' support comes from various sources: Human resources departments, collective bargaining and works councils. The research also captures how work-life balance facilities are bargained. The first part of the report is devoted to the findings of quantitative analysis while the second part describes the diverse provisions enabling employees to improve their parental duties based on a qualitative study. The third part examines the content of some innovative collective agreements on work-life balance and parenthood. In the last part of the report, different commitment regimes are identified with respect to the combination of practices from the social partners within the company, taking account of the contrasted commitment of the trade unions in this issue, as also of the constraints due to the size of the company, the characteristics of the workforce, the profile of the employer and the cultural and historical background of the company.
Entreprises et modes d'accueil de la petite enfance: innovation et diversification
Depuis 2004, par la mise en place ou l’ouverture de dispositifs financiers au secteur prive 1 , les Caisses d'allocations familiales peuvent soutenir f inancierement les entreprises qui souhaitent creer ou developper une creche pour accueillir les jeunes enfants de leurs salaries. La participation des entreprises s’effectue essentiellement sous deux fo rmes : les creches d’entreprises et les entreprises de creches. Les premieres creent des places d’accueil pour les enfants de leurs salaries ; les secondes prennent en charge le travail de gestion des creche s quelles soient municipales, associatives ou privees. L’analyse de ces formes de participation e st cruciale pour souligner les logiques mises a l’œuvre et le role joue par les acteurs publics (Ca f, Conseil general, Mairie) dans la regulation de l’accueil des jeunes enfants. L’etude presentee par le LEST est la premiere etude realisee sur cette question, nouvelle dans le champ de la petite enfance. Elle s’inscrit dans la reflexion institutionnelle engagee 2 sur l’evolution depuis les annees quatre-vingt-dix des politiques e n matiere de modes de garde, vers une offre de service « privee » (assistantes maternelles, garde a domicile etc). Les resultats presentes ici ne pretendent pas a l’exhaustivite mais ont pour ambit ion de souligner les impacts des differentes formes de participation sur la gouvernance des modes d’acc ueil de la petite enfance. Le dossier se compose de trois parties. Dans la pre miere partie les chercheuses exposent leurs questionnements, leurs investigations de terrain ai nsi que les mesures en faveur de l’investissement des entreprises. Dans la deuxieme partie, elles dec rivent les resultats de leurs travaux en soulignan t la multiplicite des formes de participation et les enjeux pour les differentes parties prenantes. Dans la troisieme partie, elles soulignent les impacts de c es structures sur la gouvernance des modes d’accueil de la petite enfance et analysent les fac teurs incitatifs/freins au developpement de cette forme de participation des entreprises a l’accueil des jeunes enfants.
Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility: A Study of Provisions and Implications of Indian Companies Act 2013
Abstract 
The spotlight of this chapter is to understand the connection between public policy and corporate social responsibility (CSR); in other words – the institutionalization of CSR. What is the role of the government for setting standards and mandating for ensuring responsibility? The emerging accepted wisdom in policy and academic circles is that many sustainability solutions are likely to result from institutional (i.e., governance) reform. A perceptive on CSR evolving as an institution of broader societal governance appears as a promising opportunity to delve into at a point in time when conventional rules, actors, and markets that steered the global economy demonstrate to be undergoing credibility crisis. CSR therefore must be considered within the wider field of institutions for governing the corporation and the economy. This chapter is exploratory as it dwells into theoretical underpinning of emerging mandatory CSR as well as provides empirical mapping of corporate responses to the new enacted legislation. The CSR analysis presented is based on a content analysis of the information contained in the annual reports of some prominent companies, government documents, audits reports, companies websites, and newspaper reports, which will provide us evidences of responses of corporates toward the CSR provisions.