Monday, December 01, 2014
Tweet[IWS] ILO: LABOUR PROTECTION OF INTERNS IN CHINESE TEXTILE AND APPAREL ENTERPRISES [2014]
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International Labour Organization (ILO)
Bangkok, Thailand
LABOUR PROTECTION OF INTERNS IN CHINESE TEXTILE AND APPAREL ENTERPRISES [2014]
[full-text, 48 pages]
[excerpt]
This report presents the results of a study carried out by the Office for Social Responsibility of
the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC) with support from the International
Labour Organization (ILO). The study hopes to document some of the actual conditions in which
internships are carried out in the textile and apparel industry, and to develop recommendations
on how to improve the management of internships. Research for the study was carried out
in November and December 2013 in ten textile and apparel sector enterprises in Jiangsu,
Shandong, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.
Results of the study show that while the vast majority of the 290 interns participating in the
survey considered the internship to be a useful learning experience, a significant proportion
worked in conditions that violate their labour rights and sometimes even constitute forced
labour as the term is understood in international law. We hope that this report will inspire
enterprises, schools and policymakers at central and local level to continue their valuable
internship programmes but to do so in conditions that fully realize the labour rights of interns
and protect various industries in China against allegations of forced labour.
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