re: #465 Alouette

Read their lame excuses for child labor in their sweatshops.

From there:

We also have contacts with doctors who can help us to judge the age of those who we think look particularly young during our factory audits. Often no documentation is found and in the worst case neither the families nor the child knows how old he or she is. Lack of documentation is a big problem and we are constantly working on getting our suppliers to improve their routines, so that they can give a serious assurance that everyone who is working in their factory has reached the lawful age for employment. We require some kind of proof of age to be checked on employment or, if there is no such proof, for a doctor to establish his or her approximate age.

Sounds like they want to skate as close as they can to whatever the “lawful age for employment” is.