Same writer as this Order #88168 and same point of view please.

Response for these two of my classmates paper listed down here

– Student 1

According to the Wall Street Journal, Mattel owns four factories in China and also works with around 30 to 40 vendors in the country based on seasonality, product assortment, and other factors. Most recently, Mattel has been looking into allegations made by a labor rights group that the toy maker is violating China’s labor laws and abusing workers. The group, China Labor Watch, says that workers are being underpaid and overworked. They had sent undercover representatives to work in the factories which uncovered 18 ethical and legal violations.

Specifically, the group claims factory owners delay workers payments, fail to provide workers with adequate protective equipment, along with housing and discriminate actions against pregnant women. The group also said that workers making Mattel toys are forced to stand 10 to 13 hours, exceeding the nine hour working day limited stated in Chinese law. In some factories, fire escapes are blocked and emergency exits are locked, posing fire-safety concerns.

Mattel did comment much other than saying they take, “the welfare of the people who make our products very seriously” and that the company will take necessary action following the investigation’s completion.

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– Student 2
“Through a combination of unpaid overtime hours, work hour trickery, and voluntary social insurance (social insurance is legally mandated in China), Mattel’s supplier factories are stealing millions of dollars from workers.” In this article, people acted as factory workers from April 2013 to September 2013 in order to find out what Mattel was doing to keep their wages down. Mattel suppliers were also found to be discriminating during hiring, they wouldn’t hire people over a certain age or people of a certain gender. They were also found to be paying people months after the pay period ended, therefore withholding money from them. Mattel also made people work 10-13 hours shifts, which is against labor laws. They were also found to be “stealing wages” by not counting overtime as overtime, and just paying normal time wages to employees. They saved around $100,000 by doing so.

References:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/business/worldbusiness/29mattel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/70
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