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  • 'We Blew It': Nike Admits To Mistakes Over Child Labor: by Steve Boggan

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    Nike admitted that it made mistakes by employing child labor in some countries. While Nike aims to only employ workers 16 years or older, verifying ages can be difficult where birth records do not exist or can be forged. Nike acknowledged its "worst experience" was subcontracting work to villages in Pakistan that drew children into production. Though Nike now requires factories to remove and pay children, provide education, and only rehire them at a legal age, mistakes still sometimes occur. Critics remain concerned about low wages for workers and want increases to allow for savings and economic security.

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    Nike admitted that it made mistakes by employing child labor in some countries. While Nike aims to only employ workers 16 years or older, verifying ages can be difficult where birth records do not exist or can be forged. Nike acknowledged its "worst experience" was subcontracting work to villages in Pakistan that drew children into production. Though Nike now requires factories to remove and pay children, provide education, and only rehire them at a legal age, mistakes still sometimes occur. Critics remain concerned about low wages for workers and want increases to allow for savings and economic security.

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    'We Blew It': Nike Admits To Mistakes Over Child Labor: by Steve Boggan

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    Nike admitted that it made mistakes by employing child labor in some countries. While Nike aims to only employ workers 16 years or older, verifying ages can be difficult where birth records do not exist or can be forged. Nike acknowledged its "worst experience" was subcontracting work to villages in Pakistan that drew children into production. Though Nike now requires factories to remove and pay children, provide education, and only rehire them at a legal age, mistakes still sometimes occur. Critics remain concerned about low wages for workers and want increases to allow for savings and economic security.

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    'We Blew It': Nike Admits to


    Mistakes Over Child Labor
    bySteveBoggan

    ThemultibilliondollarsportswearcompanyNikeadmittedyesterday
    thatit"blewit"byemployingchildreninThirdWorldcountriesbutadded
    thatendingthepracticemightbedifficult.
    Nikeattemptedtopresentitselftoitsshareholdersinitsfirst
    "corporateresponsibilityreport"asatouchyfeelyentityestablishedby
    "skinnyrunners"andemployingyoungexecutiveswhoworriedaboutthe

    environmentandthelevelofwagesitpaid.
    ThemerefactthatNikehasproducedsuchareportwaswelcomedin
    somequarters,butitsmaindetractors,includinglaborgroupssuchas
    Oxfam'sNikeWatchandtheCleanClothesCampaign,saidtheywerenot
    convinced.
    PhilipKnight,thecompanychairman,clearlystungbyreportsof
    childrenasyoungas10makingshoes,clothingandfootballsinPakistanand
    Cambodia,attemptedtoconvinceNike'scriticsthatithadonlyever
    employedchildrenaccidentally."OfalltheissuesfacingNikeinworkplace
    standards,childlaboristhemostvexing,"hesaidinthereport."Ourage
    standardsarethehighestintheworld:18forfootwearmanufacturing,16for
    apparelandequipment,orlocalstandardswhenevertheyarehigher.Butin
    somecountries(BangladeshandPakistan,forexample)thosestandardsare
    nexttoimpossibletoverify,whenrecordsofbirthdonotexistorcanbe
    easilyforged.
    "Evenwhenrecordskeepingismoreadvanced,andhiringiscarefully
    done,onemistakecanbrandacompanylikeNikeasapurveyorofchild
    labor"
    ThereportsaidNikeimposedstrictconditionsontheageof
    employeestakenonbycontractfactoriesabroad,butadmittedtherehad
    beeninstanceswhenthoseconditionswereignoredorbypassed.
    "ByfarourworstexperienceandbiggestmistakewasinPakistan,
    whereweblewit,"thereportsaid.In1995Nikesaiditthoughtithadtiedup
    withresponsiblefactoriesinSialkot,inPakistan,thatwouldmanufacture
    wellmadefootballsandprovidegoodconditionsforworkers.Instead,the

    workwassubcontractedroundlocalvillages,andchildrenweredrawninto
    theproductionprocess.Now,itinsisted,anyfactoryfoundtobeemploying
    achildmusttakethatworkeroutofthefactory,payhimorherawage,
    provideeducationandrehirethemonlywhentheywereoldenough.
    Mistakes,however,continuetohappen.Inrecentyears,Nikehasbeen
    criticizedforitsemploymentofchildlaborinCambodia,butthecompany
    defendeditselfbysayingfakeevidenceofagecouldbeboughtinCambodia
    foraslittleas$5.
    WhenitwasexposedbytheBBCashavingemployedchildrenthere,
    thecompanyclaimeditthenreexaminedtherecordsofall3,800employees.
    Thecompany'scriticsremainconcernedatthelevelofwagesitpays.Nike
    claimsitpaysdecentwages,butitsdetractorsclaimthatonlyatinyfraction
    ofthe70costofapairofitsshoesgoestotheworkerswhomakethem.
    Theywanttoseewagesincreasedwhichtheysaywouldhaveonlya
    negligibleeffectonretailprices.
    TimConnorofNikeWatchsaid:"OnfinishingworkinaNike
    contractfactory,thegreatmajorityofNikeworkerswillgobacktorural
    areasmarkedbyextremepoverty.Theirfutureeconomicsecurityisvery
    muchtiedupwithwhattheyearnnow,inthatiftheyareabletosaveenough
    theywillbeabletostartsmallinformalbusinessesbackhome.
    "Iftheyareunabletosave,theworkintheNikefactorywillmakeno
    longtermcontributiontotheireconomicwellbeing,andtheywillsimply
    returntoruralpoverty.
    "IfNikewantstobetakenseriouslyasacompanyinterestedin
    corporateresponsibilitythenitneedstoengagehonestlywithitscriticsin

    thehumanrightscommunity.Unfortunatelythecompany'snewcorporate
    responsibilityreportfailstodothis."

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