Asics' bylaws include standards prohibiting partners from using forced labor and child labor.
The president signed an executive order on Tuesday to strengthen protections so that federal contractors aren't using forced labor.
Legislation has been enacted to expand the rights of workers to form labor unions, and to outlaw forced labor.
We've already discussed how important it is for us to work together on issues of human trafficking and forced labor.
The International Labour Organization has for years pressured Myanmar to eradicate forced labor, which it says is widespread in the country.
Since Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term ("robota" means "forced labor" in Czech) in 1921, we have imagined what robots could do.
Csizsik-Csatary made sure four of them were brought back from forced labor with the Hungarian army so they would be deported and killed, according to Zuroff.
The company has a code of conduct for its manufacturing partners prohibiting child labor, forced labor, or hazardous working conditions, and checks for compliance via regular third-party monitoring, he said.
From now on the United States will try to make its trade partners guarantee workers the right to organize and ban child labor, and prohibit forced labor and protect the environment.
While a significant percentage of trafficking in Cambodia involves men being lured into forced labor, the advocates noted that female trafficking survivors often have a more difficult time reintegrating into society.
According to the website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens were sent into forced labor in German territory between 1939 and 1945.
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But Great Britain, where so many historic breakthroughs for liberty occurred, adopted forced labor during the late 1940s, and it has had a big welfare state ever since, as does France, Italy and the rest of Europe.
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All the business leaders who are here and our global economy companies have a responsibility to make sure that their supply chains, stretching into the far corners of the globe, are free of forced labor. (Applause.) The good news is more and more responsible companies are holding themselves to higher standards.
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Where the PITF has identified such industries or sectors, it shall notify agencies of these designations, and individual agencies shall, in consultation with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy of the Office of Management and Budget, adopt and publish appropriate safeguards, guidance, and compliance assistance to prevent trafficking and forced labor in Federal contracting in these identified areas.
Once he had entered the city, Cyrus did not burn it to the ground (as usually happened with conquered cities at this period) but he freed the population from forced labor obligations, sent back to various shrines statues of gods, and allowed the people who had been brought to Babylon by the Babylonian kings to return to their homes.
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The Hungarian-born Lantos came to the United States in 1947 after surviving a forced-labor camp in his Nazi-allied homeland.
Charges against the five defendants, together and individually, include sex trafficking, murder, fraud and forced human labor, among others.
In doing this they ignore that workers and firms did not agree to the contract freely, rather the firm was forced by labor law to bargain with the workers.
Even better, thanks to the abolishment of the benefits, companies on the way up would no longer be forced to bid for labor made artificially expensive by benefits paid for at least in part through taxes foisted on job-creating businesses.
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But, you might be surprised to learn what some women endured to win the vote, including being rounded into the Occoquan Workhouse for 60 days of hard labor, forced feeding, instrumental invasion of the body and in the case of Lucy Burns, imprisoned for her stance on suffrage and having her hands chained to the cell bars above her heads and left over night repeatedly.
But rising labor costs have forced the apparel maker for Armani Collezioni, John Varvatos and Hugo Boss to focus on what it does best: helping clients develop clothing while the company outsources a growing part of production.
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But rising labor costs have forced the apparel maker for Armani Collezioni, John Varvatos and Hugo Boss to focus on what it is best at: helping clients develop clothing while the company outsources a growing part of production.
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One of the most powerful union leaders at a time that unions wielded a great deal of sway over elections -- and were notoriously tied to organized crime -- Hoffa was forced out of the organized labor movement when he was sent to prison in 1967.
Using the bankruptcy law to threaten rejection of its labor contracts, United forced the unions in 2003 to accept large cuts in wages and benefits.
Babu says that pressure from Monsanto and the MV Foundation, an NGO in Andhra Pradesh backed by the Dutch nonprofit Hivos, forced him to quit using child labor.
Most Israelis explained away Sharon's behavior in his first term as the price he was forced to pay for his coalition government with Labor.
Although Pegatron briefly caught the public eye in 2011 due to a factory explosion that injured dozens of workers, the smaller company has largely escaped the laserlike spotlight that has forced Foxconn to increase wages and make changes to its labor practices.
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So, even though an employer would correctly estimate that his business would suffer if he alone were forced to pay for benefits, the fact that his labor market competitors are being put under the same obligation means that the labor market overall will readjust in a way that is much less threatening.
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States with "right to work" laws that make union organizing more difficult had twice the job growth of Ohio and other forced union states from 1995-2005, according to the National Institute for Labor Relations.
"At Berga, captured soldiers were forced to endure inhumane conditions and suffer from the Nazi policy of physical destruction through labor, " Baca and Bachus said in their letter to Geren.
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