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GAP in trouble over child labour

by David Allen on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Investigations into the awful child labour conditions in India have thrown up GAP as one the companies that are using these companies who exploit young workers who can be as young as ten.

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They were caught red handed by an investigating team from the Observer newspaper from the UK.

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However GAP has denied all knowledge of this practice, and so they feel cannot be directly held responsible for what sub contractors do, but they are not pleased to be involved if only indirectly to this sort of operation. Naturally the head office of GAP is probably completely unaware of this, but is that a good enough excuse?

Source [Hippy Shopper]


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  • No it is NOT good enough. Corporations need to screen contractors and maintain a high visibility relationship with their contractors.

    If quality control as well as ethics compliance is not important enough to a corporation, if they choose to turn a blind eye in the interests of making a profit; then they should be held responsible when they contract with the unscrupulous.

    As a buyer, I will boycott them if they don't commit to higher standards.

    I guess "plausible deniability" isn't just a practice for the US gov't anymore.
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