Exploitation Of Child Labour

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Title : “Exploitation of workers”
Introduction
Ethics can be defined as going beyond what is legal and doing what is right, even when no one is looking. While unethical behaviours at the workplace, are actions that don’t follow the acceptable standards of business in operations.
Exploitation in general terms can be defined as taking unfair advantage of someone else’s weakness. A person, who is being exploited, accepts voluntarily the deal offered because it makes them “better off”. There are different forms of exploitation such as forced labour, child prostitution, human trafficking for sex work and the abuse of migrant workers. Exploitation at the workplace is largely considered as an unethical behaviour on the part of the employer.
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It is a major problem in developing countries. In India, children are considered as being cheaper and more productive to the employers because they are docile and unaware about employment rights. It is easy for employers to manipulate them.
Children are employed in the informal sector, which is unregistered and unprotected. In such sector, there are no safety regulations, or minimum hygiene standards. Some examples of works which form parts of informal sector are: street vendors, newspaper merchants, beggars, prostitutes, shoe shine boys and so on.
There is little critical analysis on girl child labour in India. More emphasis should be placed in such cases for a better function of a society. In order to prevent child labour, parents should become more educated so that they can stop their children from being victims of child labour. They must also give proper education to their children.
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According to Kotler and Lee, CSR is a commitment to improve community well-being through discretion business practices and contributions of corporate resources. The CSR was developed in the 1980s and 1990s for two main reasons; first to increase concern about environmental issues and second for social issues, such as labour-related issues. The latter responded to both trade unions and from unfair and exploitative labour practices. Organizations must implement formal codes of conduct for both the employer and the employee if they expect ethical behaviour from them. In order to promote employee awareness, ethics training programs must be introduced (Weber

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