CORPORATE SUPPLY CHAIN: TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY???
A CASE STUDY OF NESTLE & MARS IN RELATION TO CAMBODIAN SEA SLAVES
MSc FAM - TEAM 3
KHAMLICH ALI
ROSADO GLORIA
EZE HENRY UGOCHUKWU
OCTOBER 20, 2015
ABSTRACT
Slavery, a practice that seemed to have disappeared but it apparently still exists. Indeed, the New York Times article (14 september 2015) explains that slaves laborers, from Cambodia, work for suppliers of big internationals companies like Nestle and Mars. These slaves workers work on fishing boats that get fishes that are used to make pets foods that are sold in the United States of America. For example this article relates information from the Times that talk about one of these workers life. Lang Long is a Cambodian man that had be sold as slave in a fishing boat and he was shackled by the neck during two years in order to work. In the same time, Mars received more than 90 000 cartons of fish from boat where Lang Long was. This case got a lot of reaction from people that want change. First, a group of consumers sued Mars and Nestle because of failing to disclose them dependences on slave labor. After this, Nestle said that it will start to audit its suppliers. The government of the United States of America wants more transparency, more control and thinks to reward firms that have best …show more content…
Nestle said that it will start to audit its suppliers, that means that it will work with a company that will verify if its suppliers respect rules of the worker. However, these rules will be adapted to the country (it will not be the same worker rules in the United States of America and in Cambodia) . This audit will cost money for the company and if the rules of workers are respected, the price of the fish will probably increase. Consequently, companies have to agree with the fact that the cost of the raw products
A CASE STUDY OF NESTLE & MARS IN RELATION TO CAMBODIAN SEA SLAVES
MSc FAM - TEAM 3
KHAMLICH ALI
ROSADO GLORIA
EZE HENRY UGOCHUKWU
OCTOBER 20, 2015
ABSTRACT
Slavery, a practice that seemed to have disappeared but it apparently still exists. Indeed, the New York Times article (14 september 2015) explains that slaves laborers, from Cambodia, work for suppliers of big internationals companies like Nestle and Mars. These slaves workers work on fishing boats that get fishes that are used to make pets foods that are sold in the United States of America. For example this article relates information from the Times that talk about one of these workers life. Lang Long is a Cambodian man that had be sold as slave in a fishing boat and he was shackled by the neck during two years in order to work. In the same time, Mars received more than 90 000 cartons of fish from boat where Lang Long was. This case got a lot of reaction from people that want change. First, a group of consumers sued Mars and Nestle because of failing to disclose them dependences on slave labor. After this, Nestle said that it will start to audit its suppliers. The government of the United States of America wants more transparency, more control and thinks to reward firms that have best …show more content…
Nestle said that it will start to audit its suppliers, that means that it will work with a company that will verify if its suppliers respect rules of the worker. However, these rules will be adapted to the country (it will not be the same worker rules in the United States of America and in Cambodia) . This audit will cost money for the company and if the rules of workers are respected, the price of the fish will probably increase. Consequently, companies have to agree with the fact that the cost of the raw products