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John Lewis and Habitat withdraw granite worktops over slavery concerns Supply chains of high street retailers under scrutiny after investigators uncover evidence of human rights violations and child labour in Indian stone quarries Sunday 3 September 2017  John Lewis  and Habitat have pulled a range of granite worktops from sale over concerns their supply chains may be tainted with slavery and child labour. Many other high-street businesses selling granite products such as kitchen worktops, tiles and tombstones are also likely to scrutinise their supply chains after investigators discovered that debt bondage, underage workers and unsafe, unhealthy working conditions are part and parcel of daily working life in Indian quarries.  India is the largest global producer of granite, accounting for  49% of the world’s raw stone export  in 2015. Three-quarters of the country’s granite is mined in just three states – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karna...

DOMINIC LAWSON january 21 2018, 12:01am,  the sunday times Virtue, Carillion could do. Profit, not so much dominic lawson The firm was big on social responsibility, but forgot what a business is for Share Save The speed with which politicians are distancing themselves from the bankrupt construction firm Carillion might impress Usain Bolt. Ministers are even hinting at the possibility of criminal behaviour on the part of the board (without any evidence that I can discern). For Jeremy Corbyn, it is enough of a crime that Carillion was the biggest contractor for projects that government “outsourced” to the commercial world. This meshes conveniently with the Labour leader’s Marxist article of faith that the state should buy stuff only from itself and never from the wicked profiteers of the private sector. It’s a mystery how Corbyn thinks the NHS will meet the medical needs of the public without drugs developed and sold by pharmaceutical companies, but he wil...