What does meaningful stakeholder engagement look like in practice? Why is worker voice essential to decent work and effective human rights due diligence? And how can companies engage workers and affected stakeholders in ways that build trust and lead to better decisions?

Meaningful stakeholder engagement is a core expectation under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Yet many companies still struggle with how to move beyond one-way communication, audits, or compliance-driven processes towards engagement that genuinely reflects the perspectives and experiences of workers and affected stakeholders.

Despite growing expectations around stakeholder engagement, many companies still struggle to engage workers and affected stakeholders in ways that meaningfully influence decisions and outcomes.

This is particularly important in relation to decent work. Decent work rests on four pillars: job creation, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue. Achieving decent work therefore depends not only on policies and systems, but also on whether workers and affected groups are meaningfully heard and able to influence decisions that affect them.

At the same time, stakeholder engagement is often challenging in practice - especially when engaging vulnerable workers, migrant workers, suppliers, trade unions, or stakeholders with limited trust in companies or access to remedy.

This webinar will explore how companies can strengthen engagement with workers and affected stakeholders in practice as part of their human rights due diligence efforts, and what this means for decent work outcomes in reality.

Objectives

Participants will:

• understand why meaningful stakeholder engagement is a core element of human rights due diligence and decent work

• gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of workers and affected stakeholders

• explore what meaningful engagement looks like in practice - and where companies often struggle

• learn how companies can engage workers and stakeholders in more inclusive and effective ways

• hear practical examples, challenges and lessons learned from Nordic companies and other stakeholders

• understand the role of social dialogue, worker voice and trade unions in promoting decent work.

Programme to be confirmed soon!

Summary:

• Date: Thursday 10 September 2026 13.00–14.15 CEST / 14.00–15.15 EEST
• Where: Zoom
• Language: English
• For whom: this webinar is open to all
• Recording: the webinar will be recorded and the recording shared with registered participants.