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Unethical Foreign Labor – Dubai Construction, Gap Clothing (VIDEO)
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Clothing retailer Gap had to “forcefully reiterate” its prohibition on child labor after a British newspaper very inconveniently found children as young as 10 working at a sweatshop in New Delhi, making clothes for Gap.
Dubai, with a population of 1.5 million, has been the feature of many hot posts here at Trend Hunter, receiving attention for their unusual and often enormous construction projects. These projects are being built by an army of over a million mostly South Asian workers whose salary has been eroded by the falling dollar. They earn about $1 an hour and no longer have money left at the end of the month to send home. Many of them work for a year or two essentially in indentured servitude. Now they are on strike and the old solution would have been to deport everyone but as it is Dubai has a 40% shortage of workers for their massive projects and has to think about it’s PR as it is a tourist destination.
The Observer newspaper quoted the children as saying they had been sold to the sweatshop by their families in Indian states such as Bihar and West Bengal and would not be allowed to leave until they had repaid that fee.
Some, working as long as 16 hours a day to hand-sew clothing, said they were not being paid because their employer said they were still trainees."We appreciate that the media identified this subcontractor, and we acted swiftly in this situation," Chandler told The Associated Press on Sunday. "Under no circumstances is it acceptable for children to produce or work on garments."
(news.yahoo)
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Read More: washingtonpost Via: news.yahoo
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