he ethical question is whether Apple ought to contract (through suppliers) fifteen-year-olds to work on factory floors. Is the fact that the stock price has been zooming up a pertinent fact, or does it not affect the ethics? Explain. “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do” [1]. Ethics are the morals or principals of an individual or an institute that differentiate between right and wrong. In the real world the ethics are in the form of policies and procedure, governed by government formulated laws. For our future high standard of ethnicity and morality need to be achieved. A multinational American company that manufactures iPod, iPhone, computers, laptops and other electronic was criticized
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I do not agree with employing a child under the working age. If a company contribute to his/her education, still the situation is not fine. The time that the child is spending in working at the factory could be the time spent in some sport activity. at school or be with friends. According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour (1999) refers to different forms of work that may provide financial health but will deny those children opportunities that would help them fulfill their other rights, such as education. Thus we can say that child work may damage educational …show more content…
In developing countries, child labor is necessary to the survival of families that are not able to afford two meals a day. The child workers are the only source of income in those household and if we take that chance of working from those children then we are also taking the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing from their whole family. Sometime when we think about the wider picture, feeding the whole family in this case, we need to ignore other aspects. Ethically it might not be correct but when we look at it from another angle of humanity then making children work to support their families also appears to be correct. I agree that children need to achieve basic education but id the company owner take this responsibility on their shoulders to provide that education and suitable working conditions for these children, then it is ethically correct to let these children
I do not agree with employing a child under the working age. If a company contribute to his/her education, still the situation is not fine. The time that the child is spending in working at the factory could be the time spent in some sport activity. at school or be with friends. According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour (1999) refers to different forms of work that may provide financial health but will deny those children opportunities that would help them fulfill their other rights, such as education. Thus we can say that child work may damage educational …show more content…
In developing countries, child labor is necessary to the survival of families that are not able to afford two meals a day. The child workers are the only source of income in those household and if we take that chance of working from those children then we are also taking the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing from their whole family. Sometime when we think about the wider picture, feeding the whole family in this case, we need to ignore other aspects. Ethically it might not be correct but when we look at it from another angle of humanity then making children work to support their families also appears to be correct. I agree that children need to achieve basic education but id the company owner take this responsibility on their shoulders to provide that education and suitable working conditions for these children, then it is ethically correct to let these children