Forced Labour Issues: Recommendations from Business Ethics and CSR

This report presents recommendations for addressing forced labour issues from the perspectives of business ethics and corporate social responsibility. It emphasizes the importance of fair treatment for migrant workers, ensuring equal working conditions, and the right to freely enter and terminate employment. The report suggests preventing fraudulent practices and abusive conditions, prohibiting threats or confiscation of workers' identities, and providing secure storage for documents. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of reviewing wage records, examining company policies, and communicating with management to prevent labor exploitation. By implementing these recommendations, organizations can better protect the rights of migrant workers and comply with ethical and social responsibility standards, ensuring fair labor practices and avoiding issues such as the denial of entry into the U.S. due to labour allegations.

Recommendation to
resolve forced labour
issues from business
ethics and corporate
social responsibilities
perspectives

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Recommendation to resolve forced labour issues from business ethics and corporate social
responsibilities perspectives
Forced Labour issues have become the major issue when it comes to labour exploitation.
Both business ethics and corporate social responsibilities play a very important role when it
comes to resolving and dealing with the issues of the forced labour. For organizations, it is very
crucial to fulfil their corporate social responsibility and follow the rules and regulations without
exploiting the labour. In reference to the business ethics, they are basically the study of suitable
practices and policies in relation to controversial topics such as corporate social responsibility,
corporate governance, and insider trading and forced labour issues. In reference to the oil palm
planting organization, the company subscribes to the corporate social responsibility in reference
to the business operations with the support of being RSPO and MSPO certified but even though
the company’s shipment was denied entry in the U.S as its production process involved migrant
workers who were facing labour allegations. In reference to the organization, it is very important
that the migrant workers should be treated in a fair manner irrespective of their legal status.
Firstly, they should be given same working conditions as compared to the domestic workers
(Zhang, Oo and Lim, 2019). For the purpose to resolve the forced labour issues involving the
migrant workers, they must had the right to freely enter into or terminate the employment
through a reasonable notice in relation to the national law and within the boundaries of business
ethics. Secondly, it is very important for the employers to take necessary actions for the
objective to prevent the fraud practices and abusive conditions which could result in trafficking
or coercion for labour exploitation. Lastly, it is very important for the company to make sure
that irregular migrant workers and their family members should never be threatened with
denunciation to the authorities.
Also various practices such as withholding or confiscating identity of workers should be
prohibited. In addition to that, the employers should provide secure storage for such kind of
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documents which provide secure storage (Stahl and et.al, 2020). Also as per the rules and laws of
corporate social responsibility, there are various actions which need to be carried out by the
employers such as considering if the migrant workers are getting benefit from the various
working conditions as compared to domestic workers. Moreover, it is very important to review
wage records for the purpose to ensure that wage levels are the same for the migrant and
domestic workers. Moreover, it is important to examine that the policies of the company and the
contracts of the migrant workers and also considering provisions regarding the entry and
termination of employment (Hameed and et.al, 2019). Furthermore, it is very important to speak
up with the management regarding the various measures undertaken for the purpose to prevent
fraudulent practices and abusive conditions in relation to the migrant workers. With the support
of all these recommendations, it would become smoother for the organization to resolve the
forced labour issues related to the migrant workers. In reference to the case study, these
recommendations could help the organization to get entry into the U.S and also protecting the
rights of the migrant workers who were exploited during the production process.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Zhang, Q., Oo, B.L. and Lim, B.T.H., 2019. Drivers, motivations, and barriers to the
implementation of corporate social responsibility practices by construction enterprises: A
review. Journal of cleaner production, 210, pp.563-584.
Stahl, G.K., Brewster, C.J., Collings, D.G. and Hajro, A., 2020. Enhancing the role of human
resource management in corporate sustainability and social responsibility: A multi-
stakeholder, multidimensional approach to HRM. Human Resource Management
Review, 30(3), p.100708.
Hameed, Z., Khan, I.U., Islam, T., Sheikh, Z. and Khan, S.U., 2019. Corporate social
responsibility and employee pro-environmental behaviors: The role of perceived
organizational support and organizational pride. South Asian Journal of Business Studies.
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