The company [SP International in Calcutta] flaunts accreditation for complying with the best labour practices, for protecting its employees from occupational health hazards and for maintaining safety norms at the workplace. Its owner claims “there is no child below the age of 14” working in the 24F GJ Khan Road factory...[However most of the workers at the SP International’s leather bag-making facility in Topsia] ranging from age six to 14 — ... are busy...15 to 16 hours every day...“This is the standard practice here… Most exporters employ children for three meals a day and keep them under lock and key,” says a resident, who has seen such illegal and exploitative units mushroom here in the past two decades.