Research Working Paper Can Factory List Disclosure Improve Labor Practices in the Apparel Industry?: A Case Study of Nike and Levi-Strauss David J. Doorey SAS-HR2008-01-Doorey www.atkinson.yorku.ca/Research Can Factory List Disclosure Improve Labor Practices in the Apparel Industry?: A Case Study of Nike and Levi-Strauss1 David J. Doorey* York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto‚ ON M3J 1P3 * Assistant Professor‚ York University‚ Toronto. This research is generously supported by a
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UK Government Changes to Child Benefits are Unfair to Families with a Single High Earner Is it fair that families with a single high earner should have their benefits removed while other families earn tens of thousands more and yet retain theirs? Good evening council and I am here to explain why these changes to child benefits are unfair on families with a single high earning parent or guardian. The new changes to child benefits state that families with one parent on a wage higher than 60‚000
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But even though what he was doing was right‚ in the year of 1968‚ April 4‚ at the age of 39‚ he was assassinated by James Earl Ray.We have to respect people equally‚ no matter their race‚ but sometimes people treat other people unfairly. People are unfair with rules. Monique W. Morris is a former president for economic programs‚ advocacy and research at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and an activist for African Americans. She argues that schools‚ and people in
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A stereotype is an oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person‚ group of people or thing. A common one that is around even today is gender stereotypes. The short story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro is narrated by a young girl who is reflecting back on her childhood when she was challenged greatly by gender norms and had to reconcile expectations with her own identity. The unfairness of gender stereotyping is a prominent theme in this short story. The female narrator was introduced
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The short story “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be published in the Atlantic Monthly to heighten the awareness of the unfair treatment of women. In this short story the narrator’s husband John tries to control her. It actually all starts when John believes that his wife is not sick and he thinks that moving to a summer house for the summer will help his wife get better. The narrator does not agree with her husband but goes along with him because he is “a physician of
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inequitable and Meursault did not deserve a punishment as severe as death. When I started the novel I did not agree with that statement at all‚ it was understood that Meursault had shot the Arabian man‚ five times at that‚ how could one find this as an “unfair retribution”? As I kept reading though‚ I was almost mortified by the conduct and the overall atmosphere of the trial. There is no way to deny that the lawyers behavior towards the defendant was inexcusable. There was a clear injustice of Meursault’s
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Lan Xia‚ Kent B. Monroe‚ & Jennifer L. Cox The Price Is Unfair! A Conceptual Framework of Price Fairness Perceptions Recent news coverage on pricing portrays the importance of price fairness. This article conceptually integrates the theoretical foundations of fairness perceptions and summarizes empirical findings on price fairness. The authors identify research issues and gaps in existing knowledge on buyers’ perceptions of price fairness. The article concludes with guidelines for managerial practice
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The unfair portrayal of young people in the media: The media‚ is an intimidating creation that has taken the stereotypes of teens‚ the way people view teens‚ and the way we view ourselves‚ and has turned it into a delusional farce. The media at this point in time portrays teenagers as generally bad. Well to be honest‚ not generally bad‚ but mostly horrible. We are seen as the cause for alarm and trouble in society. The media portrays us as manic delinquents with no solid past and no concrete future
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Case Study #1: Please refer to Mini Case Mini-Case “Is Your Chocolate the Result of Unfair Exploitation of Child Labor?” 1. Should labor practices in another country be a relevant consideration in international trade? Why or why not? Yes‚ labor practices in another country should be relevant for consideration in international trade. The reason for concern is labor and social advocates has increased imports from countries in which labor standards are apparently not
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Current Employment Relations Issue of Unfair Dismissal and Pregnancy A recent employment relations concern deals with unfair dismissal. When an employee is dismissed for certain statutory reasons‚ is inequitable and is incompatible to the merits of the situation; this phenomenon is known as unfair dismissal. This has been a long debated issue concerning all participants in the employment relationship. Investigation of the current employment relations issue of unfair dismissal found that emphasis is
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