We work to ensure that people and communities who suffer at the hands of corporations have access to justice and we campaign for access to remedy.
Access to justice is about ensuring everyone has equal ability to engage with a fair, accessible legal system to enforce right – this is access to a just process.
Access to remedy is about ensuring that people receive timely, adequate reparation if their human rights are abused – this is access to a just outcome. Forms of remedy include apologies, guarantees that abuses will not happen again, financial compensation or criminal liability for harms committed.
Our case against McDonalds
CJC is currently working on a case in partnership with five trade unions to secure access to justice for McDonalds UK workers in response to allegations of serious and continuing violations of global labour standards on gender-based violence and harassment.
Under the OECD Guidelines on Business and Human Rights, signatory states are required to set up a National Contact Point to which victims of corporate harm can submit official complaints against states alleged not to have met the Guidelines’ standards. In response to allegations raised by 700 current and former junior employees, CJC joined a group of trade unions to submit a complaint to the UK’s NCP (known as The Office for Responsible Business Conduct).
Read the latest update on this case.