A poor ethical decision that American Eagle Outfitter’s has made was not being able to trace its entire supply chain. AE has a track record of non-compliance issues to ethics standards in factories abroad, especially in 2011-12. In 2012, over half of the factories audited by AE in South Asia and East Asia had non-compliance issues related to hours of work, fire safety, health and safety concerning the work floor and dormitories and local law, and code and labour contract violations. A few recent reports show improvement since those years, but not by a lot. Free2Work, a research organization that rates brands by their business practices, gave American Eagle a B, but their scorecard shows that the company earned a D in the category of worker’s
