Financial In Market Wristbands made to raise awareness of the Make Poverty History campaign have been produced in Chinese factories which violated ethical standards, it emerged today.
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Oriental Trading The fashionable white wristbands, worn by celebrities and politicians including Tony Blair, were made for a coalition of charities as the symbol of their worldwide 2005 campaign to end extreme poverty.
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Trading Audit reports on two Chinese factories producing the bands have shown standards fell below the Ethical Trading Initiative.
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Trading Financial System Tat Shing Rubber Manufacturing Company, in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, was accused of forced labour by taking financial deposits, poor health and safety provision, long hours, unpaid overtime and no right to freedom of association, in the April 2005 audit.
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Day Trading An audit report on Fuzhou Xing Chun Trade Company, in Fujian province, included workers being paid below the local minimum hourly wage of 2.39 yuan (16p), down to 1.39 yuan (9p) in some cases, overtime work not being paid properly and with hours beyond the legal limit, no paid annual leave, no guarantee of a day off per week, and workers being deducted for disciplinary reasons.
Forex Financial Trading The A spokeswoman for Cafod, which bought 120,000 rubber bands from the Tat Shing factory, said today: It was concerned that labour standards werent as good as we would have expected especially as we were buying as part of this campaign.
Fortune Make Option Trading She said: The point (forced labour) was around people being asked to leave a deposit against future possible breakages of machinery which clearly we wouldnt want to see and violates Chinese law and the Ethical Trade Initiative.
Science Of Financial Market There were a lot of things which clearly concerned us so we asked them to take corrective action.
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Financial Sales Services Originally we were told there was no overtime, which we thought was unlikely, so we were concerned people were being asked to work overtime without being paid.
Commodity Trading Another Cafod spokeswoman said the company had agreed to engage with Tat Shing as an incentive for the company to improve its employment practises.
Financial Services Trading She said: We are disappointed this situation has arisen. However we are now engaging with the supplier to improve conditions within the factory.
Online Forex Trading Under the Ethical Trading Initiative standards when we find out a supplier isnt in line with those standards we dont just pull away. We attempt to engage with the supplier and work with that supplier to improve conditions so they are in line with the Ethical Trading Initiative standards.
Financial Portfolio Trade By engaging with the supplier, the supplier has an incentive to improve conditions so the end result is better than if we had pulled away.
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Trading Financial Future Tat Shing has accepted a timetable to improve specific weakness picked up in the audit, the spokeswoman said.
Forex Trading Software She added: We are fully confident all the requirements will be met but we will have to re-examine our position if they are not met.
Trading Post Oxfam bought 10,000 silicon wristbands from Tat Shing in November last year, none of which have been sold, but found another supplier while waiting to receive the firms audit.
Trading System Oxfam then ordered 1.5 million wristbands from Fuzhou Xing Chun Trade Company after the failings highlighted in its audit had been addressed.
Forex Trading System A spokesman for Oxfam said: Like the rest of the Make Poverty History coalition, Oxfam is concerned about the ethical audits that have come back on the Chinese factories lined up to supply white bands and we have agreed formal action plans to address the concerns raised which have been carried out.
Fx Trading We can reassure people wanting to support the campaign that all white bands sold in Oxfam shops meet the standards of our ethical purchasing practices.
Trading Card A spokesman for Christian Aid, which has bought more than 500,000 wristbands from Tat Shing, said: There is no hint of a disagreement within the agencies on this.
In Online Trading At Christian Aid we stand four-square beside our partners within the Make Poverty History Campaign. Sandbag, a Berkshire-based marketing company which deals with the Fuzhou factory, was not available to comment.
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