However, the government has delayed the legislation amid business unease about the concept of corporate killing.
Prosecutors in Hamburg may also have difficulty bringing charges because Germany has no legal concept of corporate criminal liability.
Fail-safe A plastic prop The unkindest cuts ReprintsTianping's voluntary purchase shows that the concept of corporate social responsibility is no longer entirely foreign in China.
Labour promised reform on the concept of corporate manslaughter in two manifestos and in its July deal with the unions at Warwick.
"I was amazed at how the concept of corporate responsibility has grown in Brazil," said Mark Ritchie of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis.
Or is the whole concept of corporate citizenship folly in a global economy where shareholder value is to be maximized and union workers rail about unfair foreign trade but then run to Walmart for cheap Chinese-made goods?
As instances of business malefaction pile up — Enron, Madoff, Goldman Sachs, A.I.G., Toyota, BP, and we're just clearing our throats with that lineup — the concept of corporate responsibility has acquired the sour air of an oxymoron for many people.
Later this year, the UK Government will announce its business and human rights strategy for British business, at home and abroad, centred on the concept of corporate human rights due diligence.
