Human Rigths

 Generally it is known and accepted that the purpose of major companies are founded huge profits.   Last decades, companies’ profits are increased rapidly. According to Fortune 500, there is a list of top ten companies such as Walmart ($482,130), Exxon Mobil ($246,204), Apple ($233,715), Berkshire Hathaway ($210,821), and McKesson ($181,242), United Health Group ($157,107), CVC Health ($153,290), General Motors ($152,356) Ford Motor ($ 149,558) and AT&T($146,801).  How they increase profits is still a question. So the question of whether well-known companies to gain huge profits exploitation through who has disadvantages or not.  Critics argue that some of the companies who have huge profits and there have a good example of human rights such as fair wage systems, supporting workers activities as well as good training programs. However, some people assert that the most well-known companies have huge profits. Despite those profits, workers’ rights are abused. Who has weak and less power, this system is open to abuse. They have unfair salary systems and salary not based on their performance. Upon examination, this paper will argue that well-known companies can only achieve huge profits through the exploitation of the weak. The paper will argue that well-known companies as well organizations can only achieved huge profits through the exploitation of the women as well as the children.

The main reason why companies earn huge profits is through women abuse. A significant number of women and girls around the world worked as domestic workers in private social unit. They clean, cook, look after children, care for elderly and relatives, and perform other main tasks for their employers. Notwithstanding their vital part, they are among the most abused and exploited workers in the world. For example, women were abused by some companies such as Wal-Mart and Target Corporate. They have claimed to a human rights support group those two factory managers were sexually abusing women from 2007 (Miguel 2011). In addition, some of women have abnormal work conditional environment.  For instance, in the Democratic Republic of  Congo, about 100 workers, mainly women, many with babies and infants, were worked in the waters to find cobalt without safety clothing and also worked long hours without any equipment (Amnesty International 2016). This poor treatment allows companies to pay unfairly and charge high prices increasing their net annual profits through exploitation.

Nevertheless, it is argued that many other companies support employees as well as women. For example, Microsoft’s corporate social responsibility programs are to support human rights. As such, second-priority stakeholder group in the company’s CSR approach is employees. The interests of employees are fair labor as well as competitive compensation, and employment practices. These stakeholders are important because of their direct effect on Microsoft Corporation’s organizational performance through human resource capability and productivity.  For example, Microsoft provides their talented workers high wages so that they can be able to compete with their technology firms such as Apple and Samsung (Smithson 2016). This means women who have a job in Microsoft; they have not financial problems because they earn salary fairly enough. This can be seen women have a significant opportunity for their career or as a result they can pay attention to their families and their children.

Whilst this may be true only in some well-known companies, it is not majority of the companies.    Some of the women at Wal-Mart have experienced because of sexism, gender abuse takes multiple forms allowing certain women privilege because power is not distributed equally (Nelson 2006).   In addition, since 1998, 1.7 million women worked in the Wal- Mart   Female workers of Wal-Mart can hardly pay the things except the necessity of life with earning $6.10 per hour, or $13,688 annually. Unfortunately, many Wall- Mart female workers live below the poverty level. (Rosen 2007) It is obvious that high profits companies to exploit to gain huge profits through women.

Another group abused by major organizations to gain increased profits is children. For example, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, around 40,000 boys and girls work in cobalt mining. Children work long hours approximately 12 hours per day and carrying heavy loads, to gain from one or two dollars per day (Amnesty International 2016). It means that the profitable companies get huge amount of revenue though children. Moreover, according to Richter (1990) age between 11 and 17 children were found working in fishing industry in Thailand.  They work long hours approximately 10 hours per day without break time as well as night shift to earn minimum wage. In addition, children have a health problems caused by their work.  This unfair treatment allows fishing industry to pay unfairly and those industry increases Thailand economy through exploitation. Moreover, in West Africa, children worked for cocoa farms and they were also trafficked by cocoa farmers and their agents. They working conditions is extremely dangerous. Child trafficking is driven by poverty, poor education and weak (Schrage.E& Ewing.A 2005).

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