Compare and contrast the legal and ethical considerations of the Apple/Foxconn crisis. How were these reconciled?
RESULTS: Unfortunately this answer is rather too blunt for academic writing and needs more explanation. What we’re looking for is a more detailed explanation of how the relevant laws and treaties apply and have changed.
Do you think Apple is responsible for the alleged human rights violations? Why and how does the law apply?
RESULTS: Unfortunately this section lacks sufficient discussion of the relevant laws and treaties. Remember this is a unit called “legal frameworks”.
Is it reasonable for Apple to apply different ethical and legal standards in different countries?
RESULTS: This section includes several statements such as “companies must apply the same level of ethical and legal standards”, and “companies have a duty of care” … but this unit is intended to give you the information and skills to say *why* they must (what compels them) and *why* they have a duty of care (what happens if they don’t).
OVERALL RESULTS: It would have improved your assignment to have included some material from content readings such as Mugarura, N. (2017). “The interaction of public and private international law in regulation of markets”. International Journal Of Law & Management, 59(6), 1236-1256, which notes that “public and private international law encompass norms evolved by multilateral treaties, customs, judicial decisions, model laws and soft law instruments by different oversight bodies governing states and other stakeholders in their relationship with each other”. This would have prompted you to examine multilaterial treaties and judicial decisions in your assignment. These are designed to encourage a level playing field (. You could also have gone an extra step and included content and references from Apple’s latest CSR statements which include references to ILO provisions, found here: and here
If you look at the Apple supplier responsibility report for 2010 there is only glancing reference to the ILO but the 2020 report cites the ILO and its laws in much greater detail. Question is … what’s changed in the meantime and why? This would be argued by referring to what the ILO held then and what Apple adopted, then and now.
