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I'm working on a international trade question and need guidance to help me learn.

Read the following ethical dilemma:

A visiting American executive finds that a foreign subsidiary in a poor nation has hired a 12-year-old girl to work on a factory floor, in violation of the company’s prohibition on child labor. He tells the local manager to replace the child and tell her to go back to school. The local manager tells the American executive that the child is an orphan with no other means of support, and she will probably become a street child if she is denied work.

If you were the American executive, what would you do? Why?

I want you also to respond to my classmate.

As an American executive, I would immediately call Children and Family and all the corresponding companies and associations to help this orphan girl.
Child labor violates the Rights of the child as it does not allow the child to develop properly both physically and mentally and will be an added difficulty to their adult life. The federal laws of the United States only say that children from the age of 16 can work and that they are not dangerous jobs.
For these reasons, the company must remove this minor immediately from the factory and seek the necessary aid, otherwise the company would be failing to comply with the regulated standards. This could cause a scandal for the company and the prestige of the company would greatly decline before the national and international market.