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In addition, natural disasters represent an extreme risk to children's rights, where the poorest communities are the most vulnerable. With an estimated nine million people affected by floods in 2011, efforts to reduce levels of poverty are likely to stall in the short to medium-term.
Thailand has not ratified all of the main international labour rights and health and safety standards conventions, thus presenting a higher risk to businesses operating in or sourcing from the country. Furthermore, poor working conditions are common due to the poor enforcement of existing labour regulations. The coun-try has one of the highest incidences of long working hours in the world and fails to provide effective and comprehensive protection of young workers.
Rosy Blue Diamond Co. Ltd. was established in Phitsanulok in 1989. It operates a diamond cutting plant employing around 770 workers. Over the past 15 years this factory has been taking actions that build and support children's rights. To improve and protect the rights of children through our operations we support the parents in their role as caregiver, providing decent work with an adequate living wage and good working conditions.
Before the revision of the legal minimum wage by the Thai government, for years the Rosy Blue Business Alliance already had a salary package into place that rewarded our people 40 to 60% more than the national minimum wage. It is good that the government has uplifted the wage structure as we strongly believe that if families have decent income, children have better chances for access to education, wellbeing and development.
To help in this journey this factory opted for the SA 8000 management system, which is one of the world's first auditable social certification standards for decent workplaces, across all industrial sectors. The factory has achieved certification since 2006 onwards until 2012 as a new factory was being built. Since end of 2014 the factory is operational and we are preparing ourselves for recertification SA8000.
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The factory also goes beyond compliance to maintain its excellent health and safety records. The Ministry of Labour granted the factory an impressive award for having operated for seven million hours with zero accidents. The Rosy Blue Business Alliance tries to support its employees in meeting both their work commitments and family responsibilities. Sixty percent of the employees in our factory are women who benefit
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