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"Employing cheap labor without proper auditing and investigation of your contractor inevitably means children will be used somewhere along the chain."
- Bhuwan Ribhu, Global March Against Child Labor
October 30, 2007 —
An investigation by the UK's Observer has revealed Gap clothing being manufactured by children as young as eight, under unspeakable conditions. It appears that at least one of Gap's Indian vendors subcontracted a portion of its orders to child sweatshops.
The children working in that factory have since been rescued from a life of slavery by Indian authorities. The Observer says they were sold by their parents to sweatshop recruiters and taken to factories where they were beaten and forced to work from morning until after midnight without pay.
In 2000, after a BBC investigation revealed widespread child labor abuses in Gap's factories, the company began to work vigorously to cleanse its image. It now employs nearly one hundred inspectors to monitor its overseas vendors, and claimed in its most recent corporate responsibility report that more than 60 percent of its factories had rated "good" or "excellent."
For its part, Gap has pulled more than 10,000 garments from its supply chain to ensure that it doesn't sell any of the products produced by the sweatshop in question. It has also deployed representatives to India to investigate the matter, and reiterate its policies on child labor and subcontracting.
But as this story develops, Gap has yet to sever ties with the vendor it says is responsible for abuses, raising questions about its commitment to backing up its labor standards with action.
That is really insulting for
That is really insulting for GAP to have child labor they must reduce this bad image and increase inspector to investigate and check on child labor i would like to write more on it after my 70-642 Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring exam which I had prepared from best IT Training service provider and I’m confident to pass it in first attempt as I have already pass my 70-620 MCTS: Windows Vista, Configuration Exam along with 70-630 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring with high score as i will be free from all this i must return on your page to write more on child labor and GAP taking action to remove this bad image.
I think breaking ties with
I think breaking ties with vendors does have some legalities so I hope they would got this thing sorted out by now and also it's a lesson to many companies to check the background of their vendors in emerging countries where labor is pretty cheap but often standards aren't being followed. They must strongly monitor them otherwise the whole reputation of the company can be at risk.
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