Sweatshops: Sweatshop and Routine Pregnancy Tests
Mini research on sweatshop
A sweat shop is a work place, often a factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions. It is defined by the US department of labour that violates two or more labour loss. Sweatshop is a light-hearted game based upon very present realities that many workers around the world contend with each other. In developing countries, an estimated 250 million children ages 5-14 are forced to work. Products that commonly come from sweatshops are shoes, clothing, rugs, coffee, chocolate, toys, and bananas. Sweatshops do not alleviate poverty. Men and women alike are subjected to verbal, physical, and sexual abuse in factories from their managers and supervisors. They are sometimes trapped in the factory and forced to work overnight or across multiple shifts. In 2000, more than 11000 sweatshops in the US violated the minimum wage and overtime laws, while over 16000 had broken health and safety laws. Women make up 85-90 percent of sweatshop workers, employers force them to take birth control and routine pregnancy tests to avoid supporting maternity leave or providing appropriate health benefit.
Five things that have been done so far by the stakeholders: * Initial efforts to correct or improve sweatshops in the US began in 1884 with legislation in the state of New York to eliminate the production of tobacco products in home; this was a practice that was common at the cigar industries. * Gap provides a recent example of bad publicity because of sweatshops. In late 2007, it was revealed that some of the company’s clothes were produced by young children in India. Though gap had policies and procedures to prevent the use of sweatshops and children in the production process, it was subcontractor that was operating the facility. The company responded to the bad publicity by announcing plans for “ sweatshop Free” labels for its clothing. They also pledged to increase its monitoring of subcon-tractors and overseas factories.
A sweat shop is a work place, often a factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions. It is defined by the US department of labour that violates two or more labour loss. Sweatshop is a light-hearted game based upon very present realities that many workers around the world contend with each other. In developing countries, an estimated 250 million children ages 5-14 are forced to work. Products that commonly come from sweatshops are shoes, clothing, rugs, coffee, chocolate, toys, and bananas. Sweatshops do not alleviate poverty. Men and women alike are subjected to verbal, physical, and sexual abuse in factories from their managers and supervisors. They are sometimes trapped in the factory and forced to work overnight or across multiple shifts. In 2000, more than 11000 sweatshops in the US violated the minimum wage and overtime laws, while over 16000 had broken health and safety laws. Women make up 85-90 percent of sweatshop workers, employers force them to take birth control and routine pregnancy tests to avoid supporting maternity leave or providing appropriate health benefit.
Five things that have been done so far by the stakeholders: * Initial efforts to correct or improve sweatshops in the US began in 1884 with legislation in the state of New York to eliminate the production of tobacco products in home; this was a practice that was common at the cigar industries. * Gap provides a recent example of bad publicity because of sweatshops. In late 2007, it was revealed that some of the company’s clothes were produced by young children in India. Though gap had policies and procedures to prevent the use of sweatshops and children in the production process, it was subcontractor that was operating the facility. The company responded to the bad publicity by announcing plans for “ sweatshop Free” labels for its clothing. They also pledged to increase its monitoring of subcon-tractors and overseas factories.