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Jones Apparel Group Inc.
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« ETHICAL » RATING OF JONES_APPAREL
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| Labor: 4 violation(s) of fundamental labor rights |
| Job: 16% of company's jobs cut since 1998 |
| Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 4 offshore financial center(s) |
| Net profit: more than 2 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 |
| Top management: earns 717 times the median income in the United States (32000 US$/year) |
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Jones Apparel is managed by |
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| 2003Brown, Rhonda |  Chairman; salary: 3.04 million US$; stock-options: 0.69 million US$; |
| 2002Card, Wesley | Chief Financial Officer; salary: 1.88 million US$; stock-options: 0.94 million US$; |
| 2002Kimmel, Sidney | Chairman; salary: 3.49 million US$; stock-options: 19.48 million US$; |
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| 2007 | | ILO violation 1,26 : At the Classic Fashion Apparel Industry, Al Hassan Industrial City, Irbid, Jordan: Workers are paid just $39.10 a week and $169.42 a month (120 JD) for working a minimum of 78 hours a week, including 30 hours of mandatory overtime. On average, the workers are earning just 50 cents an hour, which is well below the 75-cent legal minimum wage, not to mention the legal overtime premiums due the workers. What makes matters even worse is that management deducts $35.30 each month for room and board, reducing the workers' take-home wage to just $30.95 a week, which is less than half of the $64.88 the workers are legally owed.: Jordan |  |
| 2007 | | At least two young women from Sri Lanka, recruited as foreign guest workers to work at the Classic Fashion Apparel factory in the Al Hasan Industrial Park in Jordan, report being raped by managers at the factory. The women sewed clothing for Wal-Mart, Jones Apparel/Gloria Vanderbilt and other U.S. companies. The victims, both assaulted early in 2007, are Ms. Nisansala and Ms. Nine Maris. Both are now in Sri Lanka and willing to tell their stories. Ms. Nine Maris was raped by Mr. Anil, a manager at the Classic factory. After becoming noticeably pregnant, she was deported back to Sri Lanka. Ms. Nisansala reports being raped by another factory manager, Mr. Sintaiker. Receiving no help from the Jordanian authorities, Ms. Nine Maris filed a court suit against Mr. Anil in Sri Lanka. Apparently Mr. Anil has had to make several trips to Sri Lanka to deal with the suit against him. In 2006, the National Labor Committee released a year-long undercover report documenting the descent of the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement into human trafficking and involuntary servitude. We also named several garment factories such as Al Safi and Western, where young women had reported being raped. In Al Safi, a young Bangladeshi woman--according to the workers no more than 20 years of age--reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself in a bathroom after being raped by a plant manager. The Jordanian government said it was unable to discover any sexual assault or related crimes in any of its garment factories.: Jordan | National L.  |
| 2006 | | ILO violation 87 : Sacked for trying to form a union: In November, nine workers who signed a request to the Labour Ministry to form a workers’ committee, as the precursor of a union, were dismissed from the Arandia company. An industrial tribunal ruled in favour of their reinstatement. The dismissed persons included Cristina Pérez, who had stated in an interview that security guards sometimes locked her in until late at night, despite the fact that she was breast-feeding a child, and Karen Chacón, who said that the company was treating the workers “like animals”. Arandia produces clothes for the retail company Jones Apparel Group, which owns the Gloria Vanderbilt and Nine West brands.: Guatemala | |
| 2005 | -3500 | Closure/Bankruptcy: Plans to close denim-making operations in San Luis, Mexico, as it seeks to save about $5 million a year.: Mexico | Bloomberg |
| 2002 | 20785 | | |
| 2000 | 13860 | | |
| 1998 | 8685 | | |
| 1998 | | ILO violation 87 98 : "shadow contracts" waiving basic human rights, including the freedom to join unions, attend religious services, quit or marry, blocked exits, movements strictly supervised by guards, workers subject to lockdowns or curfews.: Northern Mariana Islands | Sweatshop . |
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| year | | sales | income | | buyback | source |
| 2006 |
| | | | 0.25 | billion US$ | |
| 2003 |
| 4.38 | 0.33 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2002 |
| 4.31 | 0.32 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2001 |
| 4.05 | 0.24 | | | billion US$ | |
| 2000 |
| 4.12 | 0.32 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1999 |
| 3.13 | 0.19 | | | billion US$ | |
| 1998 |
| 1.67 | 0.15 | | | billion US$ | |
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