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"Irish National Caucus: the MacBride Principles for Northern Ireland, 1986" [2005] ELECD 265; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 42

Section Title: Irish National Caucus: the MacBride Principles for Northern Ireland, 1986

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

42. Irish National Caucus: the MacBride
Principles for Northern Ireland, 1986

Commentary: The MacBride Principles were first proposed in 1984 by Dr Sean
MacBride, founder of Amnesty International. They are a set of nine equal opportunity
guidelines for commercial operations within Northern Ireland. Some 65 companies
agreed to `make all possible lawful efforts to implement and/or increase activity on
each of the nine MacBride Principles'. See further, www.irishnationalcaucus.org. For
academic commentary, see McCrudden C. (1999), `Human rights codes for TNCs:
what can the Sullivan and McBride Principles tell us?', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,
19, 167­202.



1. Increasing the representation of individuals from underrepresented religious groups in
the workforce including managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical and technical
jobs.
2. Adequate security for the protection of minority employees both at the workplace and
while travelling to and from work.
3. The banning of provocative religious or political emblems from the workplace.
4. All job openings should be publicly advertised and special recruitment efforts should be
made to attract applicants from underrepresented religious groups.
5. Layoff, recall, and termination procedures should not in practice, favour particular reli-
gious groupings.
6. The abolition of job reservations, apprenticeship restrictions, and differential employ-
ment criteria, which discriminate on the basis of religion or ethnic origin.
7. The development of training programs that will prepare substantial numbers of current
minority employees for skilled jobs, including the expansion of existing programs and
the creation of new programs to train, upgrade, and improve the skills ...