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Title: Child Labor Alleged at Factory [China]
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Child Labor Alleged at Factory [China]
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12 May 2009
Members of a Chinese minority group sent to work in a shoe factory thousands of miles from home include children, with some parents allegedly coerced into letting them go...The workers...are employed at Longfa Shoe Factory in China’s southeastern Guangdong province...Longfa Shoe Factory is owned by Taiwan-based Dean Shoes...which supplies Oregon-based U.S. footwear giant Nike...Spokesmen for Nike and for Longfa Shoe Factory denied the allegation and said hiring underage workers would violate company policies.
Title: [PDF] Sustainability Reporting Seminar for the Apparel and Footwear Industry [Hong Kong, China] on 17 Oct 2008
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[PDF] Sustainability Reporting Seminar for the Apparel and Footwear Industry [Hong Kong, China] on 17 Oct 2008
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Clothing Industry Training Authority [Hong Kong], Oxfam Hong Kong, Global Reporting Initiative
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Oct 2008
Sustainability reporting has now become a well-established practice for both global companies and small and medium enterprises, particularly in the apparel and footwear sector. To guide their reporting process, many of these companies use the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, which has become the world’s most widely- used sustainability reporting framework…A representative of a leading international apparel brand and GRI experts will come and share their knowledge with you about this important practice...Venue: Seminar Hall, 1/F., CITA Building, 63 Tai Yip Street, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon
Title: [PDF] adidas Group’s response to the article issued by the Sunday Times on March 30, 2008
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[PDF] adidas Group’s response to the article issued by the Sunday Times on March 30, 2008
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adidas
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15 Apr 2008
The Sunday Times …issued an article…containing critical comments about the working conditions in the Shunda factory, operated by the Ching Luh Group, an adidas Group footwear supplier located in Fuzhou, China. Before the publication of the article, the newspaper…contacted the adidas Group to seek our comments. On March 13, 2008 the correspondent forwarded several questions via email asking for a response…A comprehensive response was provided…Having reviewed the article in full detail, we are concerned that our comments and the additional information submitted to the newspaper have not been sufficiently taken into account…We believe that the article contains a number of erroneous conclusions. It also lacks the broader context and therefore could be misinterpreted by the reader. We have prepared a comprehensive response to the questions raised by the Sunday Times, and these are stated below.
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Adidas workers on £11 a week in China -- Staff complain of terrible conditions in the Olympic sponsor's factories [China]
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Michael Sheridan & Claire Newell, Sunday Times [UK]
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…For the thousands of Chinese workers…making Adidas’s expensive trainers…one thing does seem impossible: to get fair play. An investigation by The Sunday Times into the workers’ pay and conditions has found apparent violations of China’s labour laws and Adidas’s own code of workplace standards. Workers at the factories in Fuzhou [which are owned and operated by a Taiwan-based firm] accuse the management of cheating on pay, discriminating against young men and stifling a pioneering attempt to set up a trade union...In a statement, Adidas denied discrimination. It said neither it nor the factory management had anything to do with the politically sensitive “restrictions” on the union election. The company acknowledged that most workers got only the legal minimum basic wage and said it was aware that “unrecorded overtime has taken place from time to time”. [also refers to Nike]
Title: Nike sees ‘gaps’ in China labour laws [China]
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Nike sees ‘gaps’ in China labour laws [China]
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Tom Mitchell, Financial Times
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09 Mar 2008
Workers at Nike’s contract factories in China do not enjoy the same protection as their peers elsewhere because of “gaps” in the country’s labour laws, the global footwear giant has said in a report…“…[W]hen comparing Chinese law with the basic protections outlined under the [International Labour Organisation] Convention, there are gaps in protection that workers elsewhere enjoy.”...Nike... implied that China’s existing labour protection regime, although boosted by this year’s implementation of a new labour contract law, falls short of standards set by the ILO.
Title: An onus on retailers to keep hands clean
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An onus on retailers to keep hands clean
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Jonathan Birchall, Financial Times
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15 Jan 2007
For Britain's Tesco supermarket chain, it was a public relations disaster. Last October, secret footage aired on the UK's Channel Four news bulletin showed workers who were clearly underage making its own-label clothes in factories in Bangladesh...The case illustrated the limits of systems established over the past decade to monitor conditions in sectors such as clothing, footwear and toys...Now Tesco has now joined Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Metro - the world's four largest supermarket groups - in endorsing a new global initiative to encourage the development of a unified approach to promoting good working conditions in the supply chain from computers to bananas...With little political support for regulation, two related views are emerging among companies and non-governmental organisations. The first entails a fundamental shift in the way factories are run. Management and workers would be educated both about their legal rights and the standards buyers expect. Disney and McDonald's, for instance, have been working with NGOs and local groups on a project at 10 factories in southern China that produces clothing, shoes and toys...Gap has introduced an "integrated vendor score card" that ranks suppliers in five tiers, combining overall factory conditions with factors such as speed and innovation...[T]he second strand in current thinking [relates to]...how purchasing and design decisions made by a retailer or brand at its home office can contribute to abuses such as unpaid or excessive overtime. [also refers to Marks & Spencer]
Title: Secrets, Lies and Sweatshops [China]
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Secrets, Lies and Sweatshops [China]
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Dexter Roberts & Pete Engardio, with Aaron Bernstein, Stanley Holmes, Xiang Ji, Business Week
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27 Nov 2006
...[M]ajor American retailers and name brands have answered accusations that they exploit "sweatshop" labor with elaborate codes of conduct and on-site monitoring. But in China many factories have just gotten better at concealing abuses. Internal industry documents reviewed by BusinessWeek reveal that numerous Chinese factories keep double sets of books to fool auditors and distribute scripts for employees to recite if they are questioned. And a new breed of Chinese consultant [such as Shanghai Corporate Responsibility Management & Consulting] has sprung up to assist companies...in evading audits... [Refers to issues arising at Zhongshan Tat Shing Toys (supplier to Target, Wal-Mart), Ningbo Beifa (supplier to Wal-Mart), Young Sun Lighting (supplier to Home Depot, Sears), J.C. Penney supplier; includes companies' responses. Also refers to steps taken by Nike, adidas, Eddie Bauer, Nordstrom, HP, Dell. Also refers to Motorola, General Electric, McDonald's, Walt Disney, Black & Decker, Williams Sonoma, Shoetown Footwear]
Title: [PDF] Falling through the Floor - Migrant Women Workers' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China
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[PDF] Falling through the Floor - Migrant Women Workers' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China
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China Labour Bulletin
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September 2006
In this survey report, Chinese women workers tell us in their own words about their arduous experiences of trying to earn a fair and decent living in Dongguan, one of the country’s fastest growing and most prosperous cities. As their accounts vividly show...the women migrant workers...have not only failed to secure their fair share of the rising urban prosperity all around them - they are increasingly at risk of sinking below the minimum “floor” level for decent work as defined by the ILO...migrant workers’ wages in the various cities of the Pearl River Delta have remained unacceptably low and there appears to have been no significant overall improvement in working hours and conditions...The great majority of [migrant workers] are...from the countryside, and they are mainly employed in the city’s private sector factories producing electronic goods, toys, garments and footwear...The survey found that nearly all of those interviewed were working compulsory overtime hours...Many women said the standard of hygiene in the dormitories was unacceptably low and that the canteen food was often inedible.
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Falling through the Floor [China]
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China Labour Bulletin
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According to the International Labour Organization, the concept of decent work lies at the heart of any fair and equitable national development strategy, and the standards for defining it should rise as economies grow and prosper...In this survey report by China Labour Bulletin, young Chinese women workers tell us in their own words about their arduous experiences of trying to earn a decent living in the boomtowns of the Chinese economic miracle today...[W]omen migrant workers in Dongguan...are increasingly falling below the ILO-defined minimum standard for decent or socially acceptable work...Based on a series of in-depth interviews with 30 rural migrant women working in privately owned factories in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, the report highlights the wide range of unethical and unlawful practices used by employers to extract the maximum amount of effort from such workers at the lowest possible price.
Title: Call for clearer human rights standards in business
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Call for clearer human rights standards in business
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Alison Maitland, Financial Times
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28 Feb 2006
The furore over US internet companies’ compliance with censorship laws in China is a good example of why the corporate world must have clearer human rights standards, says John Ruggie, the UN secretary-general’s special representative on human rights and business. In an interview to coincide with this week’s publication of his interim report on corporate human rights responsibilities, Professor Ruggie said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco had been “caught flat-footed” over censorship because they had not thought about the standards that should govern their operations in China. “It’s going to be difficult, but we do need clearer standards and better tools,” said Prof Ruggie of Harvard University, whose final report will be submitted to the United Nations next year. In his interim report, Prof Ruggie says existing voluntary initiatives contain weaknesses because they tend not to cover determined laggards – the companies that cause the biggest problems – and leave many areas of human rights poorly protected or uncovered. However, he also risks angering human rights activists by denouncing the “exaggerated legal claims and conceptual ambiguities” of what are called the UN norms on human rights and business...Prof Ruggie, appointed by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan last year to end the stalemate over the norms, said the question of whether rules should be voluntary or obligatory could be answered only when appropriate standards had been agreed...In his report, he says the oil, gas and mining sector “utterly dominates” 65 alleged cases of corporate human rights abuses recently reported by activists. The food and drinks industry comes “a distant second”, followed by clothing and footwear. Sir Geoffrey Chandler, the former Shell director and ex-chair of Amnesty International UK business group, welcomed the report, saying: “Never have companies faced greater need to persuade the public that they are motivated by principle as well as profit.”
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