Comply with all applicable laws, regulations and statutory obligations in the countries in which we operate; act honestly and with integrity in all areas of our business dealings;
So sayeth the Thiess Code of Ethics. But don’t blame the senior management who drew up these fine words. They apparently knew nothing about what was happening out in the field at the desalination plant.
Just a pity that head office had not performed the first item on the company’s ethics list:
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Shouldn’t be surprising given this company’s history with the Bjelke-Petersen government.
Any organisation that has to kick of by saying it’ll “comply with all applicable laws” is doomed before it starts. Surely that’s a given?
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In the 1850s, Allan Pinkerton partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker, in forming the North-Western Police Agency, later known as the Pinkerton Agency
Historian Frank Morn writes: “By the mid-1850s a few businessmen saw the need for greater control over their employees; their solution was to sponsor a private detective system. In February 1855, Allan Pinkerton, after consulting with six midwestern railroads, created such an agency in Chicago.
During the labor unrest of the late 19th century, businessmen hired Pinkerton agents to infiltrate unions, and as guards to keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories. The best known such confrontation was the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which Pinkerton agents were called in to enforce the strikebreaking measures of Henry Clay Frick, acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie, who was abroad; the ensuing conflicts between Pinkerton agents and striking workers led to several deaths on both sides. The Pinkertons were also used as guards in coal, iron, and lumber disputes in Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.