Fair Labor Association

employees like robots with no respect. Apple states that they had no idea this was going on in Foxconn, but that’s up to you if you truly believe them. Apple took some precautionary actions against Foxconn stating that Apple will join the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in order to run external audits once a year, and they developed a global supplier code of conduct. Apple released a statement

benefits, and working conditions. With every news scandal that broke out, Foxconn was put at risk of losing their largest contractor, Apple. In an attempt to clear the bad reputation associated with Foxconn, Apple enlisted the help of the Fair Labor Association to audit the factory and produce a report which monitors Foxconn and aims to hold them accountable for their actions. The FLA went in to survey the workers and publicly report their findings to the public. The results were enough to silent

paper presented by Richard M. Locke and Alvin J. Siteman. When Nike was founded technological advancement in communication was still very primitive. Nike will outsource shoe production with Japanese companies until the oil crisis of 1970 and the new labor which consequences lead to an increase in production cost. As a

Challenges in the Global Business Environment Founded in 1999 the Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a collaboration of universities, human rights activists, and companies committing themselves to ending sweatshop type working conditions. A nonprofit and nongovernment organization, Apple was the first electronics company to join. The FLA was commissioned by Apple to investigate labor conditions at three of their factories in China where a number of their most popular electronics were being produced

that the collegiate sports are just a form of entertainment for them and the players but the players think of these sports as a job. The NCAA is the National Collegiate Athletic Association and it is the center of making all of the rules for collegiate sports. They decide on if student athletes are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act or not. Student athletes do not get enough recognition and seen as students or entertainment but not as employees. Although some people do not believe student athletes

for and what the risk exposures are for the company. As an HR Practitioner, you will want to know the answers to a few key questions; • Is the company a prime or sub-contractor? • What type of contract was awarded? • How does this contract affect labor, safety and wages? (e.g. McNamara-O;Hara Service Contract Act, Davis-Bacon Act, or Public Service Contract

Child Labor Hurts Everyone In the past, women and men fought for the children of America to liberate them of the burden of harsh work and give them their childhood back. Although we want to believe that child labor is now history, child labor is still significant in our time, all around the world. Today the number of children, ages 5-14, working around the world are estimated to be increasing. Children are constantly working in dangerous working environments that cost them their lives or hamper their

might think: the first federal minimum wage was first introduced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938. Minimum wage was set at 25 cents an hour, which works out to about $4 per hour in today’s money. That minimum wage was introduced as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FLSA also covers things like youth employment standards, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and standards for government employees at the local, state, and federal levels.”(Bebusinessed, 2016, para.7). The Depression covered

According to Kim (2015), there has been a great deal of change to the workforce ever since the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted. Since this time, there has been a huge influx of women entering into the job market, where there had not been prior to the law. This meant that during the time of the laws creation there had not been near the women receiving pay for their services like there were in the years to follow. To help modernize this change amendments needed to be added and this included

Imagine having to clock out mid-shift to prevent getting paid overtime, but not leaving for another hour or two. Having to punch out for break but work through it, or having a paid vacation taken away as if it never existed? Situations relative to these are reality and are classified as wage theft, defined by the wage theft website as “a variety of infractions that occur when workers do not receive their legally or contractually promised wages” (Wage Theft). The public is generally uneducated of