Follow the instruction:Read the recent article on Thai shrimp at http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour

Read the article on Bangladeshi garment factories at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/bangladesh-factory-fire_n_2203614.html

Browse (for understanding) Walmart’s Standards for Suppliers Manual at http://cdn.corporate.walmart.com/d1/7e/ee6f5c8942f69ad4183bc0683771/standards-for-suppliers-manual.pdf

Answer the following questions in about ½ page:

Can or should a company such as Walmart control the entire supply chain for the products it sells?

Who is ultimately responsible for ensuring worker rights and safety in a foreign country?

What weaknesses exist in the use of standards and codes? Are they robust enough? What might be the effect on businesses if all US states adopted legislation like the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act?

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Walmart is one of the biggest stores in the world. Located in America, Walmart is a multinational retail organization that runs large chains of discount warehouses and stores. According to the Fortune Global list of 2014, Walmart is the largest public corporation in the world. Being such a large company, it is very likely that it controls a bigger market fraction of the products it deals in. according to some reports, some of these products that Walmart supplies are produced in conditions which violate employee rights (ALAM, 2012). Despite the clear stipulations of the conditions needed to be fullfiled by its suppliers, some of the Walmart suppliers still violate their employee rights …

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