Sweatshops are significant to people’s lives especially in developing countries that have low employment rate. Factories are located all around the world but are mostly found in third world countries. Although working in sweat factory means risking one’s life, sweatshops are factories that have a very poor and displeasing labour conditions. Moreover, there are many unfavourable factors as a worker in sweatshops, such as unfair working conditions, and lack of employee benefits. As well as, the maltreatment of child workers in sweat factories. Firstly, sweatshops have improper and dreadful working conditions. Employees are forced to work in dangerous and messy workplace. For instance, the Rana Plaza incident, Westerman (2017) reported the following:
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The causes included shoddy construction, a building with too many floors and too much heavy equipment for the structure to withstand. (par.2)
The building was used as a sweat factory although it was not designed to be a factory. In addition, employees are receiving unequal payment and does not receive any bonuses. Female and child workers only receive a minimum wage amounting to $2 per day without any bonuses. Also, workers are required to work more than the average working time. The minimum working time is eight hours, however, most of the workers in every sweatshop work at least 15-17 hours per day. Furthermore, sweatshops do not give employment insurance benefits to their employees. Usually an employee has insurances to the company he or she works for, unfortunately, sweatshops do not give their workers’ insurances such as health care and workplace flexibility. According to Hogan (2018), “Myanmar garment workers who have been groped at work, attacked on their way home and subject to routine pregnancy tests, hope a new workshop will help change unsafe conditions.” In addition, women are forced to take in birth control and a regular pregnancy test to prevent maternity leave. Also, this shows that sweatshop owners tend to focus on their product rather than taking care of their employees. Instead of providing a better life for their employees, sweat factory owners only care about their
The causes included shoddy construction, a building with too many floors and too much heavy equipment for the structure to withstand. (par.2)
The building was used as a sweat factory although it was not designed to be a factory. In addition, employees are receiving unequal payment and does not receive any bonuses. Female and child workers only receive a minimum wage amounting to $2 per day without any bonuses. Also, workers are required to work more than the average working time. The minimum working time is eight hours, however, most of the workers in every sweatshop work at least 15-17 hours per day. Furthermore, sweatshops do not give employment insurance benefits to their employees. Usually an employee has insurances to the company he or she works for, unfortunately, sweatshops do not give their workers’ insurances such as health care and workplace flexibility. According to Hogan (2018), “Myanmar garment workers who have been groped at work, attacked on their way home and subject to routine pregnancy tests, hope a new workshop will help change unsafe conditions.” In addition, women are forced to take in birth control and a regular pregnancy test to prevent maternity leave. Also, this shows that sweatshop owners tend to focus on their product rather than taking care of their employees. Instead of providing a better life for their employees, sweat factory owners only care about their