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Your clothing manufacturing plant in India is undermanned, overworking, and underpaying your employees, thereby affecting production demands and missing deadlines. Your boss tells you to fix the problem and hire children to work despite your objection. The Indian culture accepts child labor, but your conscience tells you not to follow the cultural norm. How do you solve the problem? Explain your reasoning.
Your clothing manufacturing plant in India is undermanned, overworking, and underpaying your employees, thereby affecting production demands and missing deadlines. Your boss tells you to fix the problem and hire children to work despite your objection. The Indian culture accepts child labor, but your conscience tells you not to follow the cultural norm. How do you solve the problem? Explain your reasoning.
Child labor is not uncommon in Bangladesh, nor is it illegal. Discuss the ethics of hiring child labor. Does your response change if the child in question is the sole earner for a family?