OSLO : Norwegian telecom operator Telenor, which recently tightened ethical procedures in Bangladesh, still has sub-contractors there using child labour, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus charged on Thursday.
Telenor was forced to review and strengthen its ethical guidelines after Norwegian media last May revealed deplorable conditions for workers, including children as young as 13, who supply antenna towers to GrameenPhone, one of the Norwegian company’s subsidiaries in Bangladesh.
“They promised that now it’s cleaned up … So you had hoped that after this lesson they would be very careful … to make sure that it doesn’t happen again, but it happened again,” Yunus told the news station TV2 Nyhetskanal.
“They are not showing the kind of efficiency you’d be expecting from a company like Telenor,” he added.
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