On Wednesday, the Department of Labor’s wage and hour division advised of a consent judgment against YN Apparel, a major clothing supplier for Ross Stores. The consent judgment requires that the supplier pay $212,000 in back pay to employees in response to minimum wage violations and overtime violations. It will also require YN Apparel to hire an outside company to monitor company activities to make sure that domestic garment contractors that company works with comply with overtime law, minimum wage requirements, and recordkeeping requirements set down in the Fair Labor Standards Act. Findings from the investigation into the matter indicated that the supplier would need to increase prices paid to contractors up to three times the previous
Explain the issue or dilemma using information from the readings in the book and other sources.
After reading the article, “Why 62,000 Abercrombie & Fitch Employees Are Suing The Company,” there were two different problems that were brought to attention regarding Abercrombie & Fitch’s business ethics. The two problems were the mistreatment of their employees, and how their business marketing strategy is not well developed throughout their company. Abercrombie & Fitch is a company that has always been concerned about their image, which leads us to their, “look policy.” A “look policy” is a policy that relates to a certain look every employee has to follow to be eligible to work there. The company is facing a high-profile lawsuit over its, “look policy” (Greenhouse, 2015). Each employee is forced to purchase the company’s clothes to wear to work, each time a new sales guide comes out (Greenhouse, 2015). This is known as compelled purchases, which is a violation of the state’s labor codes (Greenhouse, 2015). They force the “look policy,” way too strong upon their employees, which developed into a huge problem. The company is facing a high-profile lawsuit
...lley, W. H., Jennings, K. M., Wolters, R. S., & Mathis, R. L. (2012). Employment & Labor Relations. Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.
In a memo from Helia Hull dated September 20, 2016, the details of the incident involve an inadvertent disclosure of privileged attorney-client documents submitted for discovery by Rosen & Quinn of Chicago, council for defendant in Whelan v. Speedy Motors, Inc. The suit arose as a product liability case from the alleged injuries suffered by Ms. Whelan when the accelerator pedal installed in a Wondercart manufactured by Speedy, failed to function properly. On behalf of Speedy our office was retained for the purpose of performing certain aspects of discovery that later proved to be the result of the inadvertent disclosure.
Rosen, Sonia A., Jaffe, Maurren, & Perez-Lopez, Jorge. (1997). The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problems. Upland, PA: Diane.
I agree with the outcome of the Hobby Lobby case. Corporations should be seen as people and have the same civil rights as them. A previous court case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) supported that corporations and unions have the same rights as individuals under the First Amendment1. Hobby Lobby is arguing that they will not provide insurance coverage for women to have abortions or for emergency contraception. The owners of Hobby Lobby, David Green and his family have an Evangelical Christian background which prohibits abortion in their religion. In a Christian background, fertilization is when an egg meets a sperm2. So the Green family believes nothing should be allowed to interfere once the baby is created through
Price increases in the raw material mean that prices needed to be increased, but customers were still willing to pay for a quality product.
The reason for raising the price in 2002 was the need to bring the profit per meter up to that of other items on the line. Although the company was in a strong position financially, it would require considerable capital in the next few years to finance a recently approved long-term modernization and expansion program.1
“Sweatshops Are the Norm in the Global Apparel Industry. We’re Standing up to Change That.” International Labor Rights Forum. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2014. .
With an increasement of students attending public schools, there tends to be a shortage of space and resources. Schools begin to limit open seats for new comers. They also increase the difficulty on academic standards. The Consent Decree was created in order for equality between different ethnicities in public schools. Some administers created control target race numbers for their faculties. The article Desegregation in a Diverse and competitive Environment: Admissions at Lowell High School by Racy Ming describes how Lowell high school changed its admissions policy to have an equal number of each ethnicity in the school and the result of that change.
Smith, G. E. (2005). Case study: Does Iv. The Gap, Inc.: Can a sweatshop suit settlement save
Marketing is a system of business activates designed to plan, price, promote and distribute want-satisfying products, services and ideas to customers in order to achieve business objectives. Consumer law protects consumer’s rights in the marketplace as well as fair trading, competition and accurate information. On the other hand, ethical aspects of marketing are about making marketing decisions that are morally right. However, consumer law and ethical aspects of marketing have a lot of advantages and disadvantages in the marketplace, which impacts business 's sales and growth like it happened to: Harvey Norman, Nurofen, apple, etc.
In a 1996 congressional testimony, National Labor Committee executive, Charles Kernaghan, led an expose on Kathie Lee Gifford when he revealed “that child laborers in Honduras were making the Gifford clothing line sold at Wal-Mart” (Duke). This realization caused Gifford to dissolve into tears and, over time, use her brand in the fight against corporate practices. For a while, these protestors were able to make a difference as many corporations were began to specify which companies were making their clothes, adopted codes of conduct, and “relied on monitors who visited factories once every three months and conducted random inspections” (Colliver). However, these socially conscious changes aren’t structured “to make factories take better care of their workers. They’re designed to make factories look like they are” (Hobbes). In reality, the factory inspections and audits are essentially, as Hobbes describes it, a “paperwork exercise”, as inspectors usually spend two days maximum at each factory, mostly checking time sheets for shift lengths, birth certificates for child labor, and pay stubs for wages. In addition to this, most manufacturers, particularly those in China and Southeast Asia, are experts in bypassing regulations “by keeping multiple sets of books, hiding cramped
Employee stakeholders have another story. The discrimination lawsuits ranging from female employees not getting equal pay or equal positions, to disabled employees, class-action lawsuits stating that Wal-Mart doctors questionnaires to prevent disabled workers from applying, Wal-Mart does not rank very high with these employees. Lawsuits stemming from Wal-Mart’s failure to monitor labor conditions at oversea factories and hires illegal immigrants add to the rift in relations between the employees and the company. Wal-Mart continues to deny charges...