IKEA Children Labor Reaction

After the publication of the documentals that showed and proved that IKEA utilise children labor for the production of its social club in India IKEA was forced to react, to try to bring out the media crisis and to be concerned and active to stop children labor in non-developed countries bid India. The first reaction when all the information appeared was to deny it, saying that IKEA never contract companies that use children labor to do their products, but they accepted the orifice that maybe the companies they were contracting, sub-contract at the same time other corporations that could have children working(a) for them.The spokesperson for IKEA defended the company, saying the contract with its suplier in the Philippines and India has been suspender, when under-age children were found to be make wicker baskets. But that was only the first reaction but for sure not last. From that point IKEA changed the way of acting, taking more seriously this grimace and having it as a pri ncipal part of the company and of the foundation IKEA owns. From that IKEA intercommunicate the event and it sent a legal team to Geneva to try on input and advice from the International Labor organization on how to deal with the problem.Also the company added a clause to all supply contracts, stating simply that if the supplier utilize children under legal working age, the contract would be cancelled. This clause, a two-pages code of conduct, is based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the youngster (1989). The third thing IKEA decided to do is to contract a Third-party that controls and emergence care of avoiding child labor practices at its suppliers in India and Pakistan. This action was truly profitable for the company because it showed a different point of view and kick upstairs good publicity and made thing seem fairer from the publics view.In that way the bussines manager of the corporation did some research with well known organizations like hold on the Children ( an organization that received on May 15 of 2012 a present of $10 million to end child labor in India like industry) or UNICEF to get advice. With all that information the manager could travel around the world, see the real situation and developed a label certifying that the carpets to which it was wedded were made without the use of child labor.