25th Nov 2007

Moral-free in other countries?

One might expect more from the nation’s largest grower of fruits and vegetables than to have foreign (Nicaraguan) workers use a pesticide known to sterilize workers, but then one would be deeply disappointed in Dole. The take-away notion here is that U.S. companies can indeed be punished for being generally moral-free in other countries, but the financial penalty is not steep all things considered:

Overall, the workers were awarded $5.7 million from jurors who found that the Westlake Village-based corporation acted fraudulently when it sent workers into its Nicaraguan fields without warning them that the pesticide had sterilized California plant workers.

The pineapple. It is not so sweet.

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2 Responses to “Moral-free in other countries?”

  1. November 25th, 2007 at 3:24 pm h sofia Says:

    Five million dollars?! That’s it?! *sigh* It’s a start, I guess.

  2. November 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pm Ms. Theologian Says:

    It doesn’t seem like a lot to me, but apparently it is a landmark case in terms of penalizing US-based companies for actions in other countries.

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