Business in 2020 and what lies ahead – speaking with Steve Gibbons

On this episode of the podcast we chat with Steve Gibbons. A member of our board Steve is co-founder of Ergon, a Task business partner and a company that helps organisations implement commitments on human rights, labour standards and gender equality.

Steve has over 25 years’ experience in labour and human rights issues. He has consulted to major international institutions, multinational companies, not-for-profit organizations and trade unions, including the ILO, World Bank Group, EBRD, the European Commission, London 2012, the ETI, UK Department for International Development and OSCE. He has worked in more than 20 countries across sectors including oil and gas, mining, retail, agribusiness, finance, and clothing and merchandise supply chains.

Steve has particular expertise in facilitating stakeholder dialogue and in devising and managing grievance and dispute resolution mechanisms in line with the UN Guiding Principles, including for the London 2012 Olympic Games. He is a expert member of the Independent Complaints Mechanism of DEG and FMO.

Before Ergon, Steve was head of employment law at Incomes Data Services, the UK’s largest labour relations research centre. He is a UK-qualified lawyer, a regular conference speaker and the founder of the UK’s leading online training company for lawyers, CPDCast®.

We chat about the current pandemic, how it has disrupted business and what’s still to come in 2020 and beyond.

You can find our more about Steve’s work at: https://ergonassociates.net