Labor practices in Apple’s supply chains in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 266-271
Author(s):  
Jenny Chan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Labor Practices

Corporate Supply Chains and the Challenge of Labor Standards

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-103
Author(s):  
Purna Prabhakar Nandamuri ◽  
Rekh Raj Jain ◽  
Vijayudu Gnanamkonda
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Manufacturing Network

The global manufacturing network facilitates the complex and opaque supply chains, comprising multiple levels of subcontracting which provide an easy scope for modern slavery through unfair labor practices. Global supply chains accommodate around 20% of total workforce. But, it is estimated, at any given moment that approximately three out of every thousand people on the planet are suffering in some form of forced labor, which is more prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region, which accounts for around 56% of the global total. Further, about 90% of the forced labor are exploited in the private economy. However, most of the successful corporates along with the governments understand the need to combat this global menace through strong legislation. The chapter attempts to analyze the major legal provisions of the prevailing labor standards framework in India, along with the pertinent case laws.

On the Anti-Bribery “Watchlist”: Compliance and Labor/Anti-Trafficking Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 675-696
Author(s):  
Andrew Boutros
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
The Uk

Today’s companies must understand and prevent the myriad problems flowing from labor issues. Increasingly demanding, serious compliance attention and resources are now being focused on the emerging area of human anti-trafficking and forced labor laws and regulations as they relate to business supply chains. These mandates include the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, the Executive Order on Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal Contracts, and the UK Modern Slavery Act of 2015. By enlisting or conscripting companies into the fight against human trafficking, child labor, and other “forced” or “coerced” labor practices, these laws introduce a wholly new compliance reality requiring accountability and supply chain compliance.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Sarosh Kuruvilla
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Corporate Code ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Voluntary Regulation ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Improve Compliance

This introductory chapter provides a background of private regulation of labor standards in global supply chains. Over the past three decades, there has been a plethora of private, voluntary regulatory initiatives with regard to social (labor) and environmental issues. This proliferation has come about in part because of pressure from antiglobalizers calling for global governance, and consumer and activist movements calling for global corporations to be more socially and environmentally responsible. There are many different methods of private voluntary regulation for labor standards, but the most common is the private regulation model. It has three elements: setting of standards regarding labor practices in global supply chains through a corporate code of conduct generally based on the conventions of the International Labour Organization; “auditing” or “social auditing” that involves monitoring whether supplier factories comply with the code of conduct; and incentives for suppliers to improve compliance by linking future sourcing decisions to their compliance records (penalizing or dropping noncompliant suppliers and rewarding more compliant ones). The book looks at the current state and future trajectory of this form of private regulation.

Has Private Regulation Improved Labor Practices in Global Supply Chains?

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-111
Author(s):  
Jinsun Bae
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Remarkable Progress

This chapter evaluates whether private regulation has brought about meaningful and sustainable improvements in labor standards and the lives of workers. It first looks at overall progress in terms of the number of violations recorded through more than twenty thousand reliable audits in multiple industries and countries over a seven-year period, before considering progress in specific factories that have been audited multiple times in India to see whether the improvement is being sustained. It appears reasonable to assume that a factory that is audited multiple times over a three-year period will register improvements (in terms of having fewer violations) after each audit. The data for these two examinations were provided by AUDCO, a global auditing company. The chapter then explores progress in specific factories, with data from the Better Work program. Finally, it examines the specific case of the supply chain of a global home products retailer, in which the factories have demonstrated remarkable progress in compliance over a short time frame.

scholarly journals Field Opacity and Practice-Outcome Decoupling: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains

ILR Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarosh Kuruvilla ◽  
Mingwei Liu ◽  
Chunyun Li ◽  
Wansi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Sustainable Improvement ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Recent Developments

Although firms in diverse industries increasingly adopt private regulation of labor standards for workers in their global supply chains, growing scholarly evidence suggests that this approach has not generated sustainable improvements in working conditions for those workers. The authors draw on recent developments in institutional theory regarding the development of opaque institutional fields that cause the decoupling between practices and outcomes to develop a new explanation for the lack of sustainable improvement in labor practices in supply chains. Using qualitative and quantitative data from a global apparel supplier and a global home products retailer, they demonstrate the various ways in which opacity causes decoupling between private regulation practices of global firms and outcomes for workers in supply chains.

Sustainable Value Chains

2020 ◽  
pp. 275-296
Author(s):  
Idahosa Igbinakhase ◽  
Vannie Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chains ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Future Supply

This chapter explores sustainable value chains with a focus on sustainable supply chain failures in developed and developing economies. Sustainable supply chains are effective environmentally friendly systems that contribute to the delivery of products and services from suppliers to customers/clients, and there are several challenges that contribute to sustainable supply chain failures such as complexity of supply chains, unfair trade practices, lack of transparency, unfair labor practices, product sustainability, and dependence on multiple suppliers. Supply chain failures have adverse effects such as to wastage of resources. Firms must adopt more sustainable approaches to the design and implementation of their supply chains in order to reduce cases of future supply chain failures.

An online cost allocation model for horizontal supply chains

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 102888
Author(s):  
Han Zou ◽  
Maged M. Dessouky ◽  
Shichun Hu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Cost Allocation ◽  
Allocation Model

Codes of Conduct: Lieferantenkodizes: Sinnvolles Instrument zur Lieferantensteuerung oder reine Marketingmaßnahme?

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (03/04) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Jörg Schlüchtermann ◽  
Johannes Heller
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Codes Of Conduct

Insbesondere in komplexen Supply Chains ist es heute üblich, dass Kunden ihre Lieferanten über Selbstverpflichtungserklärungen (Codes of Conduct) steuern. Forschungen aus anderen Industrien zeigen die Möglichkeiten, aber auch Grenzen der Arbeit mit diesem Instrument des Lieferantenmanagements. Davon können auch Krankenhauseinkäufer profitieren.

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