{"id":3337,"date":"2009-11-27T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T10:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/27\/wal-mart-launches-probe-into-labor-abuse-allegations\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:31:46","slug":"wal-mart-launches-probe-into-labor-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/11\/27\/wal-mart-launches-probe-into-labor-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart launches probe into labor abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/bizchina\/2009-11\/27\/content_9062356.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"091201_china.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/091201_china.jpg\" title=\"091201_china.jpg\" alt=\"091201_china.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span style=\"width: 630px\">United States retailing giant Wal-Mart yesterday launched its own investigation into the findings of a New-York based human rights group, which levied serious labor abuse allegations against the company after inspecting five of its supplier factories in China. &#8220;We take such reports very seriously,&#8221; a statement from Wal-Mart said. &#8220;We will take prompt remedial action if our investigations confirm any of the alleged findings.&#8221; A China Labor Watch (CLW) report, which was made public on Wednesday, alleged that employees in a number of Chinese supplier factories of the US retailer have been forced to work up to 77 hours a week in &#8220;poor working conditions&#8221;. As the world&#8217;s largest retailer, &#8220;Wal-Mart leverages its massive product orders to purchase goods at low prices, and the workers have to bear the financial burden&#8221;, CLW said in a statement. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/bizchina\/2009-11\/27\/content_9062356.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: China |  Company &#8211; Ethical Quote link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=12\" target=\"_blank\">Wal-Mart<\/a><span><\/span> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/bizchina\/2009-11\/27\/content_9062356.htm\" target=\"_blank\">China Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States retailing giant Wal-Mart yesterday launched its own investigation into the findings of a New-York based human rights group, which levied serious labor abuse allegations against the company after inspecting five of its supplier factories in China. &#8220;We take such reports very seriously,&#8221; a statement from Wal-Mart said. &#8220;We will take prompt remedial action&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}