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CRITERIA

Exploitation of Labour

Freedom of Association & Collective Bargaining

Safe & Hygienic Working Environment

Accommodation

Child Labour

Living Wages To Be Paid

Working Hours Are Not Excessive

No Discrimination

Regular Employment

No Harsh Or Inhumane Treatment

Continual Improvement

General

 

Exploitation of Labour Issues

Exploitation of labour includes all situations where workers are forced to work under the threat of penalty. This includes bonded labour and involuntary prison labour as well as workers who do not have a choice about whether they work overtime.

Forced labour includes:

  • making loans to workers (for weddings or any other reason), the terms of which tie the worker to the employment.
  • withholding workers' ID papers or requiring workers to lodge deposits.
  • resticting the freedom of workers to leave after giving reasonable notice

Prison labour is a problem when:

  • the judicial system is unjust.
  • prisoners do not have a choice about whether they work.
  • prisoners do not receive payment for work.
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What is Bonded Labour?
Workers employed in a "Bonded Warehouse"
Enforced labour to pay a debt
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Around 200,000 children are sold into slavery each year in West and Central Africa. They are purchased for as little as US$10.

"Up to 40% of the choclate we eat may be contaminated by slavery" Daily Telegraph: UK National Newspaper, April 2001

  
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