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BSK 1001- Ethics and Sustainability (20-05-2024)

Group presentation

Facilitator: Sharmila Vivekananda

Group contributors:

1) Md Tanin Mollah - s8131723

2) Samundra Nepal - s8122365

3) Mahidul Islam Medul - S8109260

4) Sweta Rana Magar - s8122429

5) Md Jahedul islam - s8131670

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1.Widespread Unemployment:

. Develop new job oppurnities

. Promote inclusive economic growth

2. Lack of Social Protection Law and the Informal Economy

.   Expand Social Safety Programmes

.  Strengthen Labour Regulations

3. Workplace Gender Inequality

. Implement Equal Opportunity Policies

. Promote Equal Pay

. Enhance Access to Education and Training

4. Global Financial Crises and Economic Uncertainty

Strengthen Social Protection System

Promote Inclusive Societies:

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Investment in Education and Skills Development

Boosts economy by giving people the skills they need.

Helps marginalized groups find jobs.

Prepares workers for today's jobs.

Encouraging Decent Work Conditions

Protects workers with fair rules.

Provides safety nets during tough times.

Makes workers happier and more productive.

Addressing Gender Inequality

Stops unfair treatment of women at work.

Supports women's careers and work-life balance.

Creates workplaces where everyone feels included.

Encouraging Sustainable Industries

Supports businesses that help the environment.

Rewards companies for being eco-friendly.

Creates green jobs and fights climate change.

Guiding Vulnerable Populations

Helps people with disabilities and refugees find work.

Supports starting businesses.

Gives a safety net during tough times.

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The purpose of the presentation is to highlight the ethical issue of child labour and how business are responsible for this. Besides, this presentation discuss the issue of child labour by ethics theories and view. Then it will relates with some article to connect this issue. Lastly, this presentation will correlates with UN SDG 4 and 8, its goals and challenges to achieve it.

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An article written by Rounaq Nayok and Louise Manning (2021) titled “Forgotten children: a sociotechnical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms,” . The authors demonstrate how India's organised criminal scene has changed in terms of using forced child labour. Due to the possibility that these stakeholders do not comprehend or recognise the reality of "work as done," there is an ethical and practical contradiction. The business ethics perspective of utilitarianism and law consider the use of children for greater benefits to be unethical because it often results in more harm than good, including the degradation of children's physical and mental health, the perpetuation of poverty cycles, and barriers to society's long-term well-being, which is wholly immoral. This problem has a strong connection to SDGs 4 and 8, which prioritise providing children with high-quality education and support policies and programmes that prioritise ending child labour by providing people with opportunities to work in decent positions.

Another article by Jerome Ballet and Augendra Bhukuth (n.d) described about child labour in the brick kiln industry in Tamil Nadu, India. It demonstrates that rather than taking the place of adult labour, particularly in family-owned businesses, child labour enhances it. Because of competition, employers use intermediaries who take advantage of unemployed adults to hire minors in order to reduce labour expenses. Families are forced into debt and forced labour under this system. Banned child labour may not be effective since families use it as a means of escaping poverty. The hiring procedures used by the sector expose workers to exploitation and vulnerability.

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A report by sky news about the Congo mines that exploit children, described that, Children are labouring like modern-day slaves in the DRC's unregulated, unmonitored mines, where a 12-hour workday could earn them the equivalent of one pound. The majority of the kids, who are between the ages of 8 and 11, are forced to labour outside in inclement weather for the entire day without any safety or protection. Even yet, the bosses treat them badly and occasionally bite them. Even now, they continue to labour in dangerous conditions after several children lost their lives due to mine collapses. Businesses and organisations need to be concerned about this issue because it completely violates the principles of virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and other forms of corporate social responsibility. Authorities need to act more decisively to save such children in order to meet the UNSDG targets.

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Special report : Inside the Congo cobalt mines that exploit children

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A findings by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR(2022) there has been very little progress in the Republic of the Congo to end the most severe kinds of child labour. Children continue to be severely exploited in forced labour and commercial sex work, even after the implementation of a Child Protection Action Plan and the publication of statistics. The government has not ratified the Palermo Protocol, and hazardous jobs in quarrying and mining continue to exist. There is no national policy against child labour, and social programmes are insufficient. Only five of every fourteen children attend school, which impedes the achievement of the UNSDGs for decent work and education.