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Contemporary Strategic Management Assignment

   

Added on  2021-04-17

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C O N T E M P O R A RY S T R AT E G I C M A N A G E M E N TSocial Sustainability
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Rules and regulationsAge requirements for employment of childrenAccording to the case study: Third World Families at Work: Child labor or child care?, Jonathan Stein witnessed Pakistani girls younger than 10 years working as sweepers at a Timothy & Thomas plant.The age limit of children that can be employed by factories in Pakistan is 14.According to Article 11(3) of the constitution, children under the age of 14 should not be engaged for any factory or hazardous employment ( Nicholas, 1993).The government is mandated to provide free and compulsory education to any children aged between 5 and 16.The minimum age for light work is 12, and as prescribed under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prohibition of Employment of Children Act, this should be alongside a family member and for a maximum of 2 hours, purely for learning purposes. The case study states that the mothers take the children to work.Their daughters start off with small tasks at the plant and advance to working on the sewing machine as they learn more skills.Children younger than this can not possibly have the knowledge to manouvre around and operate these machines.
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Third-world Families at Work: Child Labor or Child Care?In this case study, Pakistani girls who are denied an opportunity to attend school are required to work to supplement their family income, without which they would languish in poverty or even work in more unfavourable work conditions as maids or at carpet factories whose work is more taxingChild labour is described as the kind of child work which affects their health and personal development like school attendance.By description, child labour also deprives children of their dignity, as well as their social and mental development.Children under the age of 14 are constitutionally allowed to work only in businesses belonging to the family or in observation of an adult, or in easy tasks like babysitting. Children working with their parents in the case study received no pay and older girls working on machines receive 1200 rupees wages as trainees, which is a third of what adults are paid.
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