TIME FOR A REBOOT: - MONITORING IN CHINA’S ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY - BUSINESS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND

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TIME FOR A REBOOT: - MONITORING IN CHINA’S ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY - BUSINESS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND

31 Aug 2018

The problems in the approach of most auditing initiatives Despite the public attention to the issue of worker are structural flaws that need to be reoriented to suicides in Chinese electronics factories, the issue support workers and their organizations. [...] This includes the prices paid by the brand to the The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) appears to factory, order volume, last minute changes to orders, measure its success largely by the number of audits and the length and nature of their commitment to 41 42 that it has closed. [...] Workers and their organizations are involved in the formulation, development, and co-governance of the initiative and in defining the issues to be covered and compliance requirements to be monitored 2. [...] While some of these elements produce electronics and the failures of social auditing may be challenging to achieve and implement in the over the past fifteen years in the electronics industry Chinese context, any program short of encapsulating call for the development of a new vision and model these elements will fall short of adequately to advance corporate accountability – one with the addressin. [...] Their challenge is thus how to and retailers can implement is to publicly disclose translate workers’ ability to identify violations of their supplier factory names and addresses (and the China’s labor law and non-compliances with brand names of the parent companies) and the products codes of conduct into change on the factory floor.
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