Our engagement work

Since 2022, CCLA has engaged Novo Nordisk on workplace mental health, encouraging stronger policies, leadership accountability and transparent progress. By 2025, the company had introduced a comprehensive global policy, clear leadership commitment, responsibilities and targets. They have also increased their score by 44 percentage points in the CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark. 

CCLA engaged Siemens to strengthen its climate transition planning, targets and transparency. Following discussions and AGM engagement, Siemens doubled its 2030 scope 3 reduction target to 30%, introduced a roadmap to 2050 and improved sustainability reporting. Constructive dialogue has supported clearer investor assessment of its decarbonisation strategy and progress.

CCLA has long engaged Amazon over workers’ freedom of association and collective bargaining. Through shareholder proposals, investor letters and a UK roundtable, we called for independent scrutiny and stronger disclosure. Amazon subsequently met investors and hosted a fulfilment-centre visit, signalling greater openness, although further commitments and transparent reporting remain necessary.

Since 2022, CCLA, on behalf an investor coalition, has engaged Prudential on workplace mental health through investor letters, benchmarking and regular dialogue. Prudential introduced manager training, secured cross-functional support and strengthened leadership accountability. By 2025, it reached the CCLA Mental Health UK Benchmark’s highest tier, improving its score by 36 percentage points and helping embed open conversations across the business.

Through the Investor Coalition on Food Policy, CCLA has urged the UK government to strengthen nutrition regulation. Our engagement supported plans for mandatory healthy food sales reporting and targets across large food businesses. If implemented effectively, these measures could improve public health, reduce economic risks and create a fairer food system.

Following CCLA’s engagement, Sage Group strengthened its approach to modern slavery by investing in human rights expertise, improving due diligence and risk assessment, joining Slave-Free Alliance and developing a risk register. Its score in the CCLA Modern Slavery UK Benchmark rose by 11 percentage points, moving the company from tier 4 to tier 3 in 2025.

Since 2022, CCLA has engaged Experian on workplace mental health, offering practical recommendations on governance, targets and reporting. Experian has strengthened its global approach, published clearer measures of progress and improved significantly. It rose from tier 3 to tier 1 in the CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark and has maintained this position for three years. 

Through the IIGCC’s UK Policy Working Group, CCLA helped shape investor responses on climate and industrial policy during 2025. Our input covered transition plans, sustainability reporting, sector roadmaps and public investment. Subsequent government developments reflected key themes, including prioritising real-economy action and deciding not to introduce a UK green taxonomy.

CCLA brought construction leaders, investors, government and civil society together to address modern slavery risks across labour and material supply chains. Berkeley Group Holdings joined these roundtable discussions and strengthened its disclosures on due diligence, risk management, supply chain mapping and worker awareness, moving from tier 3 to tier 2 in the CCLA Modern Slavery UK Benchmark 2025.

Since 2022, CCLA has engaged Procter & Gamble on workplace mental health, supported by Mercy Investment Services. Through investor letters, annual assessments and meetings, we encouraged stronger reporting and leadership. By 2025, P&G had increased its score in the CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark by 28 percentage points.

CCLA began engaging Microsoft in 2025 on modern slavery risks across its global supply chains. Microsoft responded constructively, achieving tier 2 in CCLA’s modern slavery global pilot benchmark. It strengthened supply chain disclosures, introduced site-level risk analysis and reported remediation, including repayment of prohibited recruitment fees to affected workers across its supplier network.

Since 2023, CCLA has engaged Home Depot through Climate Action 100+ to strengthen its climate transition planning. In 2025, the company introduced emissions roadmaps, clearer scope 3 reporting and stronger climate governance disclosures. These improvements give investors greater insight into its 2030 targets, accountability and progress towards a low-carbon economy.

CCLA has engaged InterContinental Hotels Group on modern slavery and fair pay for over a decade. In 2025, IHG reached tier 1 in the CCLA Modern Slavery UK Benchmark, strengthening due diligence, worker protections and remediation. We are pleased to see it introduce the Real Living Wage across its UK leased hotels, marking important progress for employees.

CCLA engaged DBS Group to understand how its financing supports Asia’s transition to a low-carbon economy. Discussions clarified the bank’s climate framework, sector pathways and commitment to end thermal-coal exposure by 2039. However, limited progress on oil and gas expansion policies means continued engagement and greater transparency remain essential.

CCLA is working to protect migrant seasonal workers from exploitation and unfair recruitment fees. Backed by investors, we have engaged government, supermarkets and the Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce, advocating for the Employer Pays Principle. A Defra-supported feasibility study was published in 2025, while discussions on implementation continue across the sector.