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- Routine work shifts: 14.5 to 16.5 hours
- Target employees make below poverty level wage, Target is the fourth lowest wage big business in the countr
- No sick days, paid vacations, or government holidays allowed
-.Confiscation of worker's passports
- A 2006 rumor by The National Labor Committee reported Target was involved with human trafficking.
- Temperatures for factory workers can reach 100 degrees F.
-,A young woman working in the Al Safa garment factory hung herself after being raped by her manager.
-In August 2006, 10 workers from Jordan were beaten and imprisoned after misbehaving.
- In December 2010, 28 workers making clothes for Abercrombie & Fitch and Target were killed in a massive fire at a sweatshop in Bangladesh. Some were burned to death, some suffocated, some jumped to their death, and hundreds more were seriously injured.
- Nearly 13,000 of Target workers in Saipan regularly worked 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week, without breaks and no overtime pay.
Target sold products made by the lead factory in El Salvador, where mandatory pregnancy tests were taken. Any woman who was pregnant, was in turn fired.
Workers in the El Salvador factory were paid 60 cents an hour, and worked 13 hour long shifts 6 days per week.
- Target received a "F" grade on the 2006 NAACP Economic Reciprocity Initiative report. The grade reflects a measurement of corporate America's commitment to the African American citizenry and other people of color.
- Target was sued in 2002 because of discrimination
- Target refused to hire African Americans for "entry level management positions" by destroying their applications/resumes.
- Target was required to pay four African Americans nearly $150,000 in 2007 after refusing them a promotion due to race.
Social Responsibility/ Treatment of Workers
Target claims they are "Gay & Lesbian Sensitive"