Child Slave Labor in Cadbury Chocolate Company Case Study

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In Cadbury case analysis, the central issue is child slave labor that was being used in the production of chocolate. This issue led Congress to create legislation that called for the USFDA to create a “no forced labor” accreditation that could be appended to chocolate by manufacturers who could ascertain that their supply chains did not use slave labor.

The accusations of slave and child labor in the cocoa chain negative impacted the Cadbury Company significantly. In tabulated form, this paper seeks to describe each significant symptom (problem or case fact), causes of the symptoms, both surface causes and underlying ones, and recommendations for improvements and management principles used.

Symptom (problem or case fact)	Causes—both surface and underlying	Recommendations for improvements and management principles used
Working toward a certification of cocoa harvested without slave labor.	Resistant to change as it seemed impractical to industries that any group could certify that no slave labor had been used in the cocoa bean production. Governments are also failing to enforce rules in the prevention of child slave labor The existence of farms in rural areas where cultural differences and child slave labor are common.	Manufacturer’s independent verification of no trafficking, debt captivity and other aspects of child labor in the supply chain. Collaboration between vendors, the company, and the governments as well as area assessments to ensure no form of slave and child labor is used in the supply chain
Slave Labor	Cocoa became an increasingly important export crop for the country. Poor countries needed business to make money Farm owners running their farms with child and slave labor, loss of control on the farms.	Governments deciding what’s more important between using child slaves or making money for the country’s economy Industries need to create other incentives for these countries to stop allowing slave labor and regulate small rural areas for compliance
Ending Child, and slave labor in the cocoa industry	Farmers were not getting paid enough for their products to hire the appropriate employees for the job. Child slave labor helped farms cut employee costs and keep up with demand.	Practicing good purchasing practices to ensure that farmers received good prices for their products.
Getting Congress, CMA, and local farms on the same page	CMA does not believe that affixing the certification would indicate that all the chocolate products were not produced with slave labor	Getting all parties to agree and institute policies that will end slave labor and delegating (governments) who is responsible for enforcing the new policies.
4-year deadline for international protocol	Chocolate industry unprepared to implement the protocols, keeps asking for extensions	Controlling through legislation, and collaboration to gain resources and industry agreement.

The majority of problems seem to have stemmed from poor leadership and communication from Cadbury. The decision to end slave or child labor would cause the least amount of harm than the most significant benefit it will reap. The companies might lose some profits by paying better wages to workers, but this will increase the rights and living conditions of people exponentially.

The children will get the rights they deserve and be free as no human should be subjected to slavery. Additionally, Legislations attempt to force cocoa companies to change the method of farming rates lie well under the core ethic of justice. Justice for the employees should be paid instead of enslavement and impartiality by Cadbury and the company should acknowledge that their products are produced through slave labor.