Women are often asked if they date someone, are married or planning to .
have children. .
A single woman is able to stay longer and often forced to sign an agreement not to get pregnant as long as she works for the factory. If she does, she will experience verbal and physical abuse and sexual harassment, longer working hours and more difficult tasks. She will be punished by standing instead of sitting or working in a hotter area. Because of the absence of social security women are not allowed to take maternity leave or pay if they return to work after birth. The factories do not give regular employment contracts, to avoid social responsibilities. The trend goes to hiring temporary workers, because it is the simplest way to avoid paying for health insurance. The temporary contract will be renewed continuously. .
All in all, employees have barely rights and facing a lack of protecting laws. Many of these problems would be covered by government in industrial countries. But governments of developing countries are weak and depending on economic constraints. Labour laws do almost not exist, corruption is the norm and trade unions are banned. Workers who are .
joining them or other groups will be fired. The idea is even supported by the government, because they want to prevent unions from raising labour cost, to stay globally competitive. But there are some groups who represent lobbies for the factories of developing countries. They work for better conditions and laws. However, because it is a global issue and developing countries compete among each other, it is important that they all come together to find a joint solution for .
this problem. They need to be more integrated into the supply side transactions of the industry, to perform better audits. It is necessary to control the factories at a regular base. Some of them are warned about audits in advance. .
Another problem may be also inexperienced inspectors.