Actions the Nestle should take

Chocolate is very popular in the United States, so the demand of chocolate is very high. The the nestle should always manufacture more and more chocolate. The chocolate is made from the cocoa beans, which grow in the Latin America and Western Africa. The 70% of world's cocoa comes from there. The main products come from two countries, which are Ivory and Ghana. They have combined GDP of around $73 billion, but less than Nestlé’s $100 in sale in 2015.

 The nestle want to increase supply because of high demand, so they need more cocoa beans to produce more chocolate. But they want cheap labor. The cocoa they bought is very cheap. The reason is that the workers who harvest cocoa beans are children, and they get very low wages.

The problem may have been prevented if Nestle had first checked how their suppliers produce the cocoa. Nonetheless, Nestle should buy the cocoa from farmers at a higher price in exchange of child labor-free cocoa production.

I have two suggestions:

1. The company may look for other suppliers of cocoa who do not use child labor in order to pressure cocoa growers on Ivory Coast farms to stop child labor. 

2. The company may hire people to personally monitor what is happening in the field (for the company use other suppliers of cocoa) and show it to the market.

 The Nestles use Teleological Framework, because they want to increase demand of cocoa with cheap labor. So they use child labor to achieve the goal. The only thing they care is outcome of the production. The first action I suggest The Nestles do belongs to deontological framework, which focuses more on duties or obligations. Child from cocoa industries should have the same equality as us. The Nestles should find other suppliers of cocoa instead of using child labor. The second action I suggest belongs to Virtue framework, because this action can show the honesty of  company. Consumers will be happy to buy products from the Nestles.

Reference:

Revesz, R. (2016). Nestle is being sued for allegedly using child slaves on cocoa farms. Independent. Retrieved from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nestle-is-being-sued-for-allegedly-using-child-slaves-on-cocoa-farms-a6806646.html

Salazar, H. (2015). Nestlé: Use of Child Labor (2000-2015). Business Ethics Case Analyses. Retrieved from http://businessethicscases.blogspot.com/2015/11/nestle-still-struggles-with-use-of.html