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28 Déc 2023

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By Hannah Dreier, New York Times (USA)

They’re Paid Billions to Root Out Child Labor in the U.S. Why Do They Fail?

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…Migrant children would work at the Monogram Meat Snacks plant in Chandler, Minn., for almost four more years…

… private audits have become the solution to a host of public relations headaches for corporations…Known as social compliance audits, they have grown into an $80 billion global industry…

Children were overlooked by auditors who were moving quickly, leaving early or simply not sent to the part of the supply chain where minors were working…

Auditors did not catch instances in which children were working on Skittles and Starburst candies, Hefty brand party cups, the pork in McDonald’s sandwiches, Gerber baby snacks, Oreos, Cheez-Its or the milk that comes with Happy Meals…

…Mr. Callington failed three Walgreens suppliers in 2017 and 2018 for abusive working conditions, the chain complained about his communication style and asked for him to be taken off its account. UL [Solutions] put him on a remediation plan for about a year…

These plants had been supplying McDonald’s and Costco for years, and the corporations required regular audits…

…a 16-year-old from Guatemala was killed while cleaning a Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies Chick-fil-A…

…Darigold also supplies McDonald’s and Nestlé and processes Safeway’s house brand Lucerne. None of those corporations inspect the dairies where the milk originates…

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