Gap and child labor

The Gap has been dealing with child labor issues for years.  The company employs 90+ compliance officers to conduct 8,500 factory surprise visits and produces garments in 3,000 factories located in 50 countries.

ABC and CBS have recently run stories in response to new pictures in UK media of 10-13 year old kids in India under sweatshop conditions.  Here’s CBS’s story. 

As it goes, the Gap’s NA President and the company couldn’t have done much better that this in the coverage.

- She’s grateful for the investigative report that uncovered this.
- The Gap will set up schools for those kids.
- They’ll go after vendors.

The Gap also has the benefit of the  National Labor Committee saying the Gap is a fairly good corporate player and uses  the Business for Social Responsibility non-profit to try to monitor its suppliers.

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