Vietnam'S Textile And Footwear Industry Enters The United States To Hire Child Labor Blacklist

The United States Department of labor's International Labour Office announcements of the "2005 population Trafficking Victims Protection re Authorization Act" specifies that the list of children or forced labour products is also known as the TVPRA list, which has been released in version seventh, and has identified 75 countries, 139 products, produced by child labor or forced labor.

The products added to the list this year include: made in Vietnam.

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According to the survey data from the Vietnamese government and the International Labour Organization (ILO), it is estimated that 6049 child workers are engaged in textile production and are mainly concentrated in the manufacturing and finishing stage.

About 42.9% (or 2595) of them are children under 15 years of age (15 years of age are the lowest employment age in Vietnam).

Of the 6049 child workers in the textile industry, about 448 are 5~11 years old, 2147 are 12~14 years old, 3454 are 15~17 years old, and about 96% are women.

In leather production, the survey found that 1426 child labour were estimated to be engaged in leather industry, and mainly engaged in leather making and pretreatment stages and skin dyeing stage.

Among these children, about 74% were girls, 580 were 12~14 years old, and 846 were 15~17 years old.

In addition, 9756 child labour were estimated to be engaged in footwear manufacturing, and the number of working hours per week was more than 42 hours.

Among them, about 2.2% (or 215) children were 12~14 years old, while 97.8% (or 9541) were 15~17 years old.

ThomasEPerez, US Labor Secretary, said: "it is very important for us to help 168 million children in the world and 21 million adults and children who are hard pressed to work.

In order to achieve effective and sustainable development, we must take fundamental solutions to help them receive education and training, stabilize their livelihoods and get better jobs, so that the vulnerable groups can get rid of poverty and social marginalization.

Vietnam is the second largest garment supplier in the United States, and is regarded as the biggest beneficiary of the p Pacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP); TPP completed its signature in the year (2015), including the chapter on labor rights.

Although this section is not binding, it emphasizes the importance of labour rights in final trade agreements and may increase the supervision of labour rights among member states in the industrial supply chain.

Taking Vietnam as an example, individual member countries and their bilateral agreements require individual labor rights reform, which will benefit the overall interests of TPP, so the reform action will be possible.

At the beginning of this year, Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy, warned that non-governmental organizations and media could monitor TPP Member States because of the weak effectiveness of the law enforcement units and the possibility that this agreement would harm workers' rights.

In its 2016 human rights outlook, the group mentioned that no matter what actions the country takes, if its supply chain violates TPP regulations, its enterprises may also face a negative reputation.

The forced labor ban in the United States strongly demands that the supply chain of garment industry be examined.

The TVPRA list also includes ready-made garments made in the following countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, and the labour department has decided to remove it from the list as Jordan has significantly reduced forced labour in the process of garment production.

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In addition, the relevant laws and regulations of the United States act to prohibit the importation of products made by forced or contractual labour.

This will enable manufacturers, importers, brands and retailers of the United States to scrutiny their supply chain more carefully.