The Scottish Business Pledge was created in 2015, the same year the Scottish Government committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In launching the Pledge, the Scottish Government’s stated aim was to create a partnership with businesses who shared the ambition of “boosting productivity, creating sustainable employment and workforce development”. In 2018, the Government reviewed the Pledge.

This policy briefing, published by Oxfam Scotland on the back of a UWS-Oxfam Partnership Policy Forum in June 2018, urges the Government to strengthen the Business Pledge in particular with a view to driving forward the Scottish ‘Fair Work’ agenda and enhancing the role of business in supporting sustainable development at home and abroad.