The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is investigating Malaysian palm oil producer FGV Holdings for "exploitative" labor practices and lax oversight of contractors that hire its foreign labor, reports Reuters. A panel recommended the RSPO suspend FGV's sustainability certificate for its Kilang Sawit Serting palm oil mill and supply bases. FGV has frozen all new recruitment of workers from external contractors across its operations and will immediately absorb the costs of basic necessities, including food supplies given to its workers.
However, activist groups believe RSPO has not done enough. "With this decision, the RSPO has again failed to adequately hold accountable one of its member companies found guilty of widespread illegal labor violations," says Robin Averbeck, Agribusiness Campaign Director for Rainforest Action Network. Full Story
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