Rio Tinto Ethical Issues

After close inspection of Rio Tinto, there have been widespread allegations against the company with regard to its bad behavior as a corporate citizen. Rio Tinto is a global mining company with extensive operations in Africa. Their “products” are the stocks that they currently allow people to buy to invest in the company. Ways that Rio Tinto’s social impact affects their company is as follows. If Rio Tinto was to in any way harm its image and integrity as a company, everyday people will then be less likely to invest. Although the company has been praised as a source of raw materials, their practices that enable them to do so have been criticised by the public for decades. In the 1970s, it was discovered by the APHRN (Asian Pacific Humans Rights Network) that the mining company secretly kept …show more content…
To answer the allegation on Rio Tinto’s secret pact with the government, the company should release all paperwork regarding payments. If Rio Tinto was able to disclose all of their payments the public would be able to access the information and see whether or not Rio Tinto was making secret payments. When the public is ensured that no corruption is evident in Rio Tinto, only then can their image be restored. Subsequently, Rio Tinto must become more transparent to their own workers in order to solve their problem with invasions of privacy. The major problem with the installation of cameras at worksites is that the workers never signed off their right of privacy. Hypothetically, if the registration to be an employee for Rio Tinto required a waiver to privacy, the issue would have been avoided altogether. To make matters worse, Rio Tinto did not even ask permission or notify their workers that they were being surveilled. Any person that was working for Rio Tinto could have sued in violation to their right to privacy negating