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Walmart Human Right Case Study

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Wal-Mart and Human right

Prepared for
Prof. Pat
Stamford University
Bangkok, Thailand

Prepared by
Wanthana Pamee Student ID: 212310010 11/18/2014

Abstract

Introduction

Wal-Mart can be considered as one of the most successful retailer store which we can see it globally. In total the company has 3,868 stores in the United States and 5,651 stores in international market. According to the www.walmart.com , Wal-mart has earned 443, 854 million in sales all over the world. The products of the company are groceries, furniture, home improvements, auto and tires, clothing, electronics, dairy, gardening, auto …show more content…

The violations of the rules lead the company to the bad reputation and also make the company less credible. The violation provoke retaliatory action by many countries including, Thailand, China and Bangladesh. According the violation case in Thailand, Wal-Mart has loose trust and creditability. Thai Government and the Thai Frozen Foods Association (TFFA) have implemented many reforms to strengthen the process and monitor factories strictly. The enforcement of labor and occupational health & safety standards has been addressed as well. In addition, all the Shrimp producers and exporter to the USA need to follow TFFA's criteria as well as the standards established by the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP),included producers, importers, retailers and restaurant chains, certification system. (International Labor Rights Forum & Warehouse Workers United, 2013). In addition, Wal-Mart extremely violates the Thai law that the employer has to pay at least 75% of the daily wages. For this reason, there are many workers who cannot wait the payment left the factory for other employment as a result the company cannot produce the product on time that lead to low productivity and …show more content…

Wal-mart has been taken advantages to almost 48 countries all over the world. Some articles have shown that Wal-mart in Bagakadesh didn’t provide any benefits to the workers factories’ sizes are very large and none of the clinic are presented in the factory. To use the restroom, the workers must need to have a ticket and they count as a break time. In china, Wal-mart allows child labor and they have to work 19 hours straight in order to meet quotas. It is worst in china that workers cannot go to restroom without permission and emergency exits are normally locked. Wal-mart behavior is unacceptable and Wal-mart treatment of employees is horrible. Recommendations for the Wal-mart can be seen as

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