The Truth Behind the Mask: Human Right Abuses in Transnational China
Whenever I visited Beijing, China, I could see buildings of many large corporations such as McDonalds and Walmart. However, the Southern parts of China have a completely different appearance. When I was a child, I used to visit Guangzhou every year and could see many factories and thousands of workers who came from other parts of China. Nowadays, poor workers still migrate to Southern cities to work for the transnational corporations. Many of them have to work long hours every day to provide for their families. Usually, they can only go home during the Chinese New Year and use trains to reach their homes. Most of these trips are quite uncomfortable because the trains are packed …show more content…
The Ministry of Labor and Social Security should introduce appropriate policies that encompass ethical standards and accountability. The first one should be creating laws that prohibit discrimination based on household registration as the existing labor laws do not protect rural workers. Some regional governments in China even adopt regulations that restrict the employment of rural workers (Li), an aspect done in a bad way. However, most people that work for transnational corporations in China are rural migrant workers. The Ministry needs to adopt policies that include surprise inspections of factories to make companies comply with the laid down rules. The aspect would make companies accountable for protecting the workers’ rights. If any business is found guilty of breaching workers’ rights, the government should seek judicial redress and require them to address the situation. This way, it would guarantee the inherent rights that each human being …show more content…
The government probably needs to send its officials on a regular basis to ensure that companies treat workers appropriately. If the Ministry receives sufficient funding and supervision from the central government, more cases of human right abuse will be discovered. If the local government refuses to enforce the law and continues to make bargains with transnational corporations that harm workers, China’s central government could initiate criminal investigations. Hence, the government could imprison such officials. Also, the government should remove officials who would rather bargain with corporations instead of protecting workers’
Whenever I visited Beijing, China, I could see buildings of many large corporations such as McDonalds and Walmart. However, the Southern parts of China have a completely different appearance. When I was a child, I used to visit Guangzhou every year and could see many factories and thousands of workers who came from other parts of China. Nowadays, poor workers still migrate to Southern cities to work for the transnational corporations. Many of them have to work long hours every day to provide for their families. Usually, they can only go home during the Chinese New Year and use trains to reach their homes. Most of these trips are quite uncomfortable because the trains are packed …show more content…
The Ministry of Labor and Social Security should introduce appropriate policies that encompass ethical standards and accountability. The first one should be creating laws that prohibit discrimination based on household registration as the existing labor laws do not protect rural workers. Some regional governments in China even adopt regulations that restrict the employment of rural workers (Li), an aspect done in a bad way. However, most people that work for transnational corporations in China are rural migrant workers. The Ministry needs to adopt policies that include surprise inspections of factories to make companies comply with the laid down rules. The aspect would make companies accountable for protecting the workers’ rights. If any business is found guilty of breaching workers’ rights, the government should seek judicial redress and require them to address the situation. This way, it would guarantee the inherent rights that each human being …show more content…
The government probably needs to send its officials on a regular basis to ensure that companies treat workers appropriately. If the Ministry receives sufficient funding and supervision from the central government, more cases of human right abuse will be discovered. If the local government refuses to enforce the law and continues to make bargains with transnational corporations that harm workers, China’s central government could initiate criminal investigations. Hence, the government could imprison such officials. Also, the government should remove officials who would rather bargain with corporations instead of protecting workers’