Essay About Intensive Work Projectsto And Child Labour

Labu 2051 – John Chen Case Study
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LABU 2051 (T29)                                 Class 1, Mini-Case StudyQuestion 1: What is John Chen’s objective / goal?Maximising the profit of the company but stop employing the child labourAlso note that the country may allow children to work, but it’s just that the company’s rule is against employment of childrenTo ensure the value is implementedTo make profitQuestion 2: What is the problem?Child labour working in the republic of NigerAgainst the company’s core value – not to employ childrenQuestion 3: What is the cause of the problem?The republic of Niger is highly impoverishedLarge size of families → children also need to workQuestion 4: If there are job-cuts, who would be the losers and who would be the winners?Losers: the children / people working for the company → unemployed → no incomeWinners: the company → stopped employing children → earn a better reputation of the company (to build an image that it is caring about the world, no child abuse)Question 5: Is it ethical to impose a first-world value system on another culture or nation?First-world value system: children should be protected and sent to school and acquire knowledge (developed countries)C.f. In some developing countries → child labour can be legal, child labour =/= child abuseUnethical: Because of the background of the country, everyone is poor → children actually have to work to earn money for the family to make a livingQuestion 6: Come up with a solution for the case.Long-Term SolutionCash Transfer Scheme – both unconditional and conditionalMinor – UnconditionalTo ease household budget constraints RIGHT NOWMajor– conditionalTo alleviate current income poverty (by cash benefits)To reduce extent of future poverty (by behavioural conditions)This will also lower the incentive of the parents to send the children to work (NOT eliminating the problem, but to alleviate the problem)Short-Term SolutionGetting Help from the developed countries – Cash DonationTo alleviate the current poverty of the impoverished countriesPublic works programmeProvide people with income transfer in exchange for participation in labour intensive work projectsTo provide source of income to poor workersTo construct essential public infrastructureAs a kind of employment insuranceInclude on-job training, reintegrating low-skilled workers into the country labour force