{"id":11817,"date":"2023-10-10T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/corporations-are-paying-for-worker-abuse-audits-that-are-designed-to-fail-say-insiders\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:37:45","slug":"corporations-are-paying-for-worker-abuse-audits-that-are-designed-to-fail-say-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/corporations-are-paying-for-worker-abuse-audits-that-are-designed-to-fail-say-insiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US and UK companies with foreign operations use audits to prevent worker abuse \u2013 but auditors say the checks aren\u2019t working<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/oct\/10\/mcdonalds-trafficking-links-claims-chuck-e-cheese-saudi-arabia\">McDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses\">Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/trafficking-inc-five-takeaways-amazon-mcdonalds-middle-east\">McDonald\u2019s and Amazon\u2019s ties to alleged labor trafficking: five key takeaways<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before he began the interviews, Ahmed swept the room for cameras and recording devices. He then invited the workers in, one by one, spending about 10 minutes talking with each.<\/p>\n<p>They were employed at a factory in the Middle East that supplied goods for a major American company \u2013 and it was Ahmed\u2019s job, as an outside auditor, to uncover any labor abuses. Often, before he could even ask a question, the staff members hastened to assure him that they were happy with their jobs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/oct\/10\/corporate-auditing-foreign-workers-abuse-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8b95579812194b9da7c07b6ae31f68d6b6df7ab1\/648_881_4520_2712\/master\/4520.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2b6033213db1b4efb1042f7cd2b10fc7\" title=\"Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders\" \/>US and UK companies with foreign operations use audits to prevent worker abuse \u2013 but auditors say the checks aren\u2019t working<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation<br \/>\nRevealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia<br \/>\nMcDonald\u2019s and Amazon\u2019s ties to alleged labor trafficking: five key takeaways<\/p>\n<p>Before he began the interviews, Ahmed swept the room for cameras and recording devices. He then invited the workers in, one by one, spending about 10 minutes talking with each.<br \/>\nThey were employed at a factory in the Middle East that supplied goods for a major American company \u2013 and it was Ahmed\u2019s job, as an outside auditor, to uncover any labor abuses. Often, before he could even ask a question, the staff members hastened to assure him that they were happy with their jobs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and UK companies with foreign operations use audits to prevent worker abuse \u2013 but auditors say the checks aren\u2019t working McDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia McDonald\u2019s and Amazon\u2019s ties to alleged labor trafficking: five key takeaways Before he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/corporations-are-paying-for-worker-abuse-audits-that-are-designed-to-fail-say-insiders\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}