Child Labour Affect HR Practice In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Child Labour. DOLE’s National Capital Region office reported nine child labour cases involving 27 minors as a result of rescue operations conducted in seven restaurants and karaoke bars, one junkshop, and one laundry shop (USDl, 2014).Therefore, the appearance of goods produces by child labour still exists in different shop. In a survey, child labour is represented 18.9 percent of the total children 5 to 17 years old (Ericta, 2012).It shows that children 5 to 17 years old accounted for 19 in 100 is being a child labour. The huge figure shows that child labour not only still exists, but also takes a very large part of children. According to other reports …show more content…
Firstly, many companies use the cheapest child labour to save their money such as India’s companies which use the most child labour and the flaws that HR practices have caused the child labour became increasingly severe. Besides, family farms always use child labour because their family want to get free labour. Moreover, child soldiers is the most terrible child labour’s form that make children suffer the pain which they cannot accept. Although there is a series of laws and regulations related to child labour but there still have some problem need us human to solve such as some countries like India have no exact laws to prohibit child labour and some of the laws doesn’t solve the fundamental problem. In short, the flaws that HR practice have makes child labour is still one of the most terrible circumstances and the numbers of child labour still …show more content…
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At this time in history, there were “two million children under the age of sixteen” working to provide for their families, and some kids beginning labor at the tender ages of “six and seven years (in the cotton
There is a problem in the world and something needs to be done of it. There are children, primarily in Africa, that are forced to massacre innocent men and women. These kids are called child soldiers. Child soldiers are kids who are associated in war. A popular book about child soldier is an autobiography by Ishmael Beah called A Long Way Gone.
In the short story The Circuit, and the article Will India’s proposed rules of child labor help or hurt children? , it is evident that children shouldn’t be allowed to work full days as an alternative of going to school due to the loophole in child labor laws and the enjoyable opportunities school provides children with. To start off, the author of Will India’s proposed rules of child labor help or hurt children? informs, “In Surat, a fast-growing city of 4.6 million, the bosses of textile factories that make cloth regularly tell labor inspectors that the boys working in the factories are relatives” (2). This quote displays that the new child labor proposal has a loophole in which the bosses of factories can easily say that the kids working in the
“Tens of thousands of children are estimated to be recruited and used by armed groups. In 2019 alone, more than 7,740 children, some as young as six, were recruited and used as soldiers around the world, according to the United Nations. Most are recruited by non-state groups.” (Wuilbercq). There are more than seven thousand forty children that were child soldiers in twenty nineteen alone.
Many children live in an environment that is constantly under threat of conflict. Child soldiers are an ongoing problem because children should not be forced to kill and have their innocence stripped from them. This issue requires citizens to take action because children should not be forced to fight in a war that they did not
The Problem of Child Soldiers “Since 2010, there’s been a 34% rise in the number of children living in conflict-affected areas, plus a staggering 170% rise in the number of reported grave violations committed against children in conflict.”(“Child Soldiers: Childhood's End”). This quote relates to my thesis statement because it shows the percentage of child soldiers that are in danger at a very young age and the rate of children in danger is still on the rise. Child Soldiers are young children that are put into war zones and danger zones at a very young age and have no control over what is going on. In A Long Way Gone the children got brained wash but doing drugs and not knowing they were, and being killed at too young of age by also being introduced to violence at too young of an age.
What did children face? What has America done about child labor? What will America do? According to Merriam Webster, child labor is, “the employment of a child in a business or industry especially in violation of state or federal statutes prohibiting the employment of children under a specified age” (merriam-webster.com).
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time” (Grace Abbott). The issue of child labor has been around for centuries. Its standing in our world has been irrevocably stained in our history and unfortunately, our present. Many great minds have assessed this horrific issue and its effect on our homes, societies, and ultimately, our world.
Child labor is something people in the United States might think of as awful, but for families in countries like China it is a way of life. Name brand companies, for example Nike, have their products made overseas often using children to do the work. The use of child labor in other countries for Nike brings up the debate on whether or not the United States should buy products that have been produced by children. The United States should not buy products manufactured with the use of child labor because of the unfair wages they get paid and bad working conditions. Some may argue that by putting children to work it is lowering the unemployment rates in countries, the morals of buying products produced by young teenagers is just flat out wrong.
Although child labor laws were put in place in the U.S. many years ago we can still find it in the seams of our country. According to Semuels, The Occupational Health and Safety Administration received 19 child-labor complaints and found 467 child-labor violations in 2010. (par. 18) In addition, these children work in construction sites, farms, or other places that require hard physical labor.
Reading Chitra Divakaruni’s essay, Live Free and Starve, it is clear that she opposes the law(s) stopping child labor in Third World Countries. With that being said, she uses a significant amount of anecdotes proving her point as to why child labor should be prohibited. The personal anecdotes enables the readers to relate emotionally. It serves to fortify her claim, and by providing specific examples of how this bill would adversely affect these children, which supports her argument. Divakaruni is extremely passionate about what she believes.
The term "child labor" has become associated with the use of children in organized employment settings in fields such as the trades, manufacturing, agriculture, or domestic work. In most cases, children who work for paid employment do so out of economic necessity. Child labor was commonplace in the household, and children were routinely sent away to serve as apprentices and domestic labor for wages at ages as young as eight or nine in many cultures. Modern objections to child labor began within a few decades after the Industrial Revolution took hold in Great Britain. Critics of child labor in the nineteenth century charged that children took jobs from men, who needed the wages to support their families.
Assignment page Video Where many children all over the world merrily and freely live under the protection of the law, for others, this is a distant reality, they live in a world where they’re battling poverty, stripped of their childhood and basic human rights are expunged, they’re the innocent victims of conflict, and war is made to seem their one and only duty, not to mention that these are children no more than 10 years of age. They are put into a situation where it’s to kill or be killed. The United Nations defines a child soldier as, “Any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity.” Since the past 15 years, child soldiers are being used in almost every region of the world. Unlike most children, who go to school, they’re abducted from their families and forced into becoming a child soldier, where living conditions are beyond imaginable.
21.4% of children are involved in child labor, with more than half working under hazardous conditions, such as the children working seventy six hour weeks under the Disney corporation. The international labor organization defines child labor as “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.” The implementation of child labor has several negative consequences, such as a detrimental economic effect and the question as to whether its application is moral. Child labor has both a negative effect on the economic standing of a family, and that of a nation. Corporations like Disney promote the exploitation of children for labor; therefore, companies
There are many reasons that cause child labor: Poverty and unemployment levels are high – As you see, the most of employed children work in less developed countries by economy. In such countries poor families and children may rely upon child labor in order to improve their chances of attaining basic necessities. According to U.N statistics more than one-fourth of the people around the world live in poverty that is caused by the high unemployment levels. Free education is limited – U.N estimated that approximately 75 million children were not attending school. The education for the whole world’s children costs 10-30 Billion dollars that is 0.7% - 2% of the annual cost of global military spending.