Twelve companies take pledge against child labor, excessive overtime

Twelve global companies had committed themselves during a meeting in Shenzhen not to work with companies that use child labor or ask excessive overtime from their workers, China CSR reports.
The companies include Brookstone, one of the larger retailers in the US, and Kesa Electronics, the third largest retailer of electronic products in Europe.

They say that price will not be the top priority they consider in their negotiations with the goods suppliers, and they will immediately terminate cooperation with any factories that are found to employee children or ask employees to work too much overtime.

The pledge was done during a Global Sources Private Sourcing event in Shenzhen. The move comes at a moment when traditional ways of upholding corporate social responsibility by companies of monitoring their suppliers is becoming increasingly less useful, as suppliers finds easy ways around the policing by their customers.
No details on how the pledge will be executed were available.