Monday, 19 November 2007
Stephen Frost from CSR Asia (http://www.csr-asia.com) put a post on the organization's blog on Saturday about children in Xinjiang Province receiving school credits for picking cotton instead of going to classes (http://www.csr-asia.com/index.php?p=10907).
Mr. Frost correctly asks the question: How long will it take to trace the cotton picked by this under-aged labor to a particular branded finished product?
Labor, supply chain and environment are at top of the agendas of Governments and NGOs in the region – and in China, in particular, in the run up to the Olympics. Companies that are not aware of their risks and are not transparent about their state of operations are at large reputational and operational risk.
Mr. Frost correctly asks the question: How long will it take to trace the cotton picked by this under-aged labor to a particular branded finished product?
Labor, supply chain and environment are at top of the agendas of Governments and NGOs in the region – and in China, in particular, in the run up to the Olympics. Companies that are not aware of their risks and are not transparent about their state of operations are at large reputational and operational risk.
