4. Case study: Top Toy, Brio and Coop in China - Swedwatch

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• Approx. 12 persons have been interviewed by HKCIC out of more than e.g. 2000 persons working in one factory. The interviews were made outside the factory without any proof or access to documentation. • A factory audit made by TOP-TOY takes two full days for one factory. We interview about the same number of persons, and in addition we do verify all information by cross check of documents (incl. Payroll, employment contracts, insurance) besides inspecting the working conditions. The interviews are an important part of TOP-TOY’s audits. However, the report does not mention how the other companies perform their factory audits? The working hours is a general problem, but your conclusion that some factories are breaking the law is made without knowing if the factory has a special permission from the local labour department to exceed the normal overtime during a limited peak season. The workers may not be aware of this permission, but this is part of the material we collect and check during TOP- TOY’s factory audit inside the factory. We appreciate the work done by the team behind this report, and will use the input and information to improve the way TOP-TOY is working with our social responsibility. Best regards TOP-TOY Lars Gjoerup 70
Appendix: List of Toy campaigns Fair Trade Center Centre for Labour Information Sandfjärdsg. 95 Service and Training (CLIST) 120 56 Årsta 166/23 Moo 5, Paholyothin 52 Sweden Moo Ban Nattakarn Phone: +46 (0)8 643 43 64 Kwang Klong-Thanon, Bangkaen info@fairtradecenter.se Bangkok 10220, Thailand www.fairtradecenter.se Phone: +66 2 9726385 clist@loxinfo.co.th Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee Phone: +852-23665860 Fax: +852-27245098 hkcic@hknet.com www.cic.org.hk Congress Global Solidarity Irish Congress of Trade Unions 32 Parnell Square Dublin 1 Ireland Phone : +353 1 889 7777 www.ictuglobalsolidarity.org Toy campaign "Non merci Saint Nicolas" rue Provinciale 285 B-1301 Wavre Belgium Phone: +32 (0)10 43 79 60 Fax: +32(0)10 43 79 69 carole@vetementspropres.be www.vetementspropres.be Aktion fair spielt (Action fair play) Misereor Werkstatt Ökonomie Dr. Klaus Piepel Uwe Kleinert Mozartstr. 9 Obere Seegasse 18 52066 Aachen 69124 Heidelberg Phone: +49-241-442-0 +49-6221-4333611 piepel@misereor.de uwe.kleinert@woek.de www.fair-spielt.de 71
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“Easy to manage” - A report on
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Contents Foreword..................
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Summary In the past year SwedWatch
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about improving the conditions for
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Trade Center, does not see the comp
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• Work towards letting the employ
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4. Transparency Transparency is an
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in December of 2001 7 . Since China
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China. After consulting with trade
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