NAME: Sabitha Shree.

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CLASS: I-MBA-B
SUBJECT: Business Ethics

1.Product Quality:

 P&G stops selling Vicks Action 500 Extra in India after ban:
US consumer health giant Procter & Gamble's (PG.N) India unit said on
Tuesday it had stopped manufacture and sale of its cough-and-cold medicine Vicks
Action 500 Extra with immediate effect, after regulators banned it citing potential
health risk.
The drug was one of 344 drug combinations including several antibiotics and
analgesics that India ordered to be prohibited saying a government-appointed panel of
experts had found the combinations lacked “therapeutic justification.”Vicks VapoRub,
a salve which can be bought over the counter, is used to relieve coughs and
congestion, but can apparently harm infants and toddlers.

According to Dr. Bruce Rubin from Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Vicks VapoRub can have severe effects on breathing in young children because it
may stimulate mucus production and airway inflammation.The product made by
Procter and Gamble has been around since 1905 - it is applied to the chest or throat
for congestion relief or to relieve sore muscles.

It contains camphor which is toxic if swallowed or absorbed into the body and the
manufacturers do in fact warn that VapoRub should not be applied in or near the
nostrils and not used on children under 2 years of age.Dr. Rubin was first alerted to
the dangers of the misuse of the Vaporub when an 18-month-old child developed
severe respiratory distress after it was put directly under her nose.
 D-Cold Total Tablet:

Cold medicine D-Cold Total has been banned in many

countries after being said that it is harmful for the kidneys. But
in India you must have watched the advertisement of this
product while watching TV.

Government has banned common household medicines Crocin

Cold and Flu, D-Cold Total, Sumo, Oflox, Gastrogyl, Chericof,
Nimulid, Kofnil, Dolo, Decoff, O2, paediatric syrup T-98 and
TedyKoff, as part of its decision to stop the manufacture and
sale of fixed dose combination drugs (FDCs).

A fixed dose combination contains two or more drugs combined

in a fixed ratio of doses, available in a single dosage form. The
health ministry, had, in a notification on March 12, banned
nearly 350 FDCs with immediate effect, following
recommendations of an expert committee formed to examine the
efficacy of these drug combinations.
2.Employee Treatment:

 Swiggy workers go on strike over pay dispute:

Online food delivery services were affected in Chennai as

workers of Swiggy, one of major private players in this sector,
were on a strike for the second consecutive day on
Tuesday.Many restaurants in the city, including KFC, Subway,
Ambur Star Biriyani and Pizza Hut, were declared as 'temporary
closed' by Swiggy on its app.Only a handful of restaurants were
available. So, it took at least 90 minutes for the food to reach the
customers' places.

Swiggy workers abstained from work to register their protest

against the new payout methods and demanded revival of
daily/weekly incentive schemes. Delivery executives said under
the new method, they would be forced to work for longer hours
(more than 12 hours) but even then they would not be able to
achieve their incentive target.
 Google employees are becoming unhappy with pay,
promotions and execution:

In the annual "Googlegeist" survey, Google workers gave

their employer particularly poor marks on how compensation
compares to pay for similar jobs at other companies.
Employees also say they face growing bureaucracy that slows
them down, survey results showed.
CEO Sundar Pichai received a favorable rating of 84% of from
employees, but he did worse when it came to execution.As
Google prepares to bring most employees back to the office, the
company is facing a workforce that's increasingly unhappy when
it comes to key issues such as compensation and an ability to
meet career goals.

Google's annual employee surveys, internally called

"Googlegeist," show that a growing number of staffers don't
view their pay packages as fair or competitive with what they
could make in a similar role elsewhere. They are also
questioning their employer's ability to execute.
3.Environmental Impact:

 Environmental effects of paper:

The environmental effects of paper are significant, which

has led to changes in industry and behaviour at both business
and personal levels. With the use of modern technology such as
the printing press and the highly mechanized harvesting of wood,
disposable paper became a relatively cheap commodity, which
led to a high level of consumption and waste. The rise in global
environmental issues such as air and water pollution, climate
change, overflowing landfills and clearcutting have all lead to
increased government regulations.[1][2][3] There is now a trend
towards sustainability in the pulp and paper industry as it moves
to reduce clear cutting, water use, greenhouse gas emissions,
fossil fuel consumption and clean up its influence on local water
supplies and air pollution.
 Cases of Water Pollution highlight Lack of effective Law
Enforcement:

The water of Sungai Semantan in Pahang recently became

so badly polluted that two local water treatment plants had to be
shut down, leaving locals without clean water. That’s a fact.
What remains to be determined is who is responsible. The likely
culprits: three factories that may have been dumping toxic
wastes into the river.

Malaysians are rightfully angered over official negligence that

has allowed such states of affairs to endure. Many of the
country’s rivers are notoriously polluted: several of them,
including some on the island of Penang, have turned into little
more than open sewers.

Wanton pollution in urban areas is one of the causes for this sad
state of affairs. Another is soil erosion from developments and
farming, which has resulted in many rivers silting up. An
obvious solution would be to extend buffer zones further inland
on the banks of vulnerable rivers so that the added areas could
serve as filters for all the mud and debris that washes down from
riverside developments and farms.
4. Customer's Privacy:

 Post ban, Chinese App UC Browser shuts India

operations:

After the ban of 59 Chinese apps by the Indian

government, Chinese internet firm Alibaba Group's subsidiary
UC Web has suspended operations in India and has laid off
almost 90% of its 350-strong workforce in the country. The apps
including TikTok, Shareit and more were banned citing national
security issues with these apps that either originate from China
or have links to the Chinese state.

Employees of UC Web have been informed about the decision

and the offices in Gurugram and Mumbai have been shut down.
Employees of the company have also been informed that they
will be compensated for the closure of the business. As per a UC
spokesperson, the company is terminating its services
indefinitely. “We have complied with the government’s recent
directive concerning 59 apps and stopped the service,” UC Web
said in a statement to the press.
 DoJ Says Ex-Twitter Employees Acted as Agents for
Saudi Arabia, Violated Twitter Users' Privacy:

Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi,

aka Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in
accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter
users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.

All three defendants are charged with acting as illegal agents of

a foreign government; and Abouammo also is charged with
destroying, altering, or falsifying records in a federal
investigation.
The complaint alleges that Abouammo was compensated for his
illicit conduct, including through the provision of a luxury watch
and cash. Almutairi is alleged to have arranged meetings, acted
as a go-between and facilitated communications between the
Saudi government and the other defendants.
5. Social Responsibility:

 The Complete Report on CSR Activities of Nestle:

Nestle firmly believes in the purpose of ‘Enhancing

quality of life and contributing to a healthier future’. The
company operates around this mantra and is mindful of the
needs of the communities around it. It not only strives to be
sustainable with the community but also works to make a
positive difference and create maximum value for the society.

Nestle believes in creating partnerships with stakeholders

including communities, academia, civil society, expert
organisations and so on. It chooses to take up such CSR
activities that have been aligned with national priorities such as
public health, education, livelihood, water and sanitation etc.

These areas are mapped with the activities as prescribed in

Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013.
Nestle India Limited spent more than the prescribed 2% in
corporate social responsibility programs in the financial year
2018-19.

While the prescribed CSR expenditure as per Section 135 of the

Companies Act, 2013 was 38.07 crore rupees, actual CSR spend
during the year amounted to INR 38.31 crores.
 CSR: Tata Starbucks to Empower Girls and Young
Women Through Education:

Tata Starbucks announced the Tata Starbucks Empowering

Girls and Young Women program, a new initiative to support
girls and young women in India through education, skills
development and economic empowerment.

As part of Tata Starbucks ongoing commitment to creating

equal opportunities, the program will provide girls and young
women with the education, financial assistance and community
support they need to develop their skills and find careers.
Tata Starbucks has collaborated with non-profit organizations to
improve girls’ education in rural and underprivileged areas.

“Educate Girls is glad to collaborate with TATA Starbucks. It is

the first time we are collaborating in this unique model with
every Starbucks store supporting a girl’s education. Starbucks
commitment to creating inclusion, diversity and equity, and our
vision to empower out-of-school girls from India’s most remote
and rural geographies to get back to education, is well aligned.
Together we hope to strongly advocate for gender equality,
equal right to education and enable our girls to become
contributing members of our society,” said Safeena Husain,
Founder and Executive Director of Educate Girls.
“VIDYA’s partnership with Starbucks is a momentous step
towards scaling up our reach and impact, and moving closer to
our vision of an India where every child receives a high-quality
holistic education, every youth gets an opportunity to succeed
and every woman gains economic independence and social
equality. We are excited and deeply honoured to enter into a
partnership with Starbucks,” said Rashmi Misra, founder-
chairperson of VIDYA.

Since entering the market in 2012, Tata Starbucks has honored

its commitments to diversity and inclusion in India through
empowering women in new and meaningful ways. Earlier this
year, Tata Starbucks opened three stores in India operated
entirely by women, and plans to open more women-led stores by
the end of the year. In 2019, Tata Starbucks achieved 100%
gender pay equity and set an ambitious target to increase its
workforce female representation to 40% by the end of 2022.