Concern about the stakeholders.

One of the ethical issue in retail industry is that how the company treat their employees. Employees are a part of the stakeholders of a company; their job condition should be taking into consideration.

About 2 years ago, an event about employees’ human rights has drawn public’s attention. Foxconn, Apple's longtime manufacturing partner in China, has extremely strict rules for people who work in there. In fact, there was one worker committed suicide for a fourth-generation iPhone prototype for which he was responsible went missing. The 25-year-old worker was responsible for shipping iPhone prototypes to Apple; he reported the missing device to Foxconn after realizing that one of the 16 iPhones he received was no longer in his possession. According to the worker’s friends, the worker has been interrogated inappropriate. He can’t stand the pressure then committed suicide. Although Foxconn was not fully responsible for the worker’s death, it has some affect. The worker wouldn’t committee suicide if not for the tremendous pressure from foxconn.

The foxconn event is just an example for the loss of human rights of employees. Sweatshops in Asia are not a few. Being indifferent about employees’ human rights is unethical. It should no longer happen again.