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Report on Ethical Sourcing of Business

   

Added on  2020-05-04

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2WesfarmersIntroductionMost business operations are undertaken under stipulated guidelines and rules that aim at protecting the rights of their employees. As much as the business organizations may have the power to control decisions in their companies and organizations, they have to work under set regulations that are universally acceptable in relation to human rights principles as stipulated in the United Nations global compact [ CITATION UNH11 \l 1033 ]. However not all the businesses have adopted all the recommended business practices that protect the interests of the labour regulations. There have been cases of numerous bad business practices such as child labour that have been reported from big global profit-making enterprises.Wesfarmers, Australia’s largest employer and one of the largest business entities within the country have employed an ethically-driven strategy in dealing with all the aspects and requirement of a clean business process [ CITATION Wes16 \l 1033 ]. They have ventured in business practices that are community-centered such as ethical sourcing and emphasis on human rights. They have further a diversified a system in addressing inclusivity in terms of gender equality and consideration of indigenous people in their employment patterns. The ethical sourcing of raw materials means that the organization ensures that at no given time they are supplied with materials that originate from abuse of human rights such as forced labour, child labour or slavery as required in the principles 2 and 5 of the UN global compact [ CITATION UNH10 \l 1033 ].However, ethical sourcing of raw materials may be controversial if the company does not make efforts to indeed establish that their supply of raw materials does not originate from disgraceful acts of forced labour or child labour and abuse of human rights. This means that, Wesfarmers’
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