Most children said that employers paid them hourly wages for their work
PMI reported to Human Rights Watch that it severed ties with 20 growers who stated that they could not comply with the ALP standards on child labor.[434] PMI noted that its ALP code maintains generally stricter standards than defined in US federal law, both in terms of the types of activities deemed hazardous and the age limits for performing such activities.[435] With regard to training and implementation of the ALP worldwide, since 2001, over 3,700 PMI employees (and our suppliers) and nearly 500,000 tobacco growers in more than 30 countries have been trained on ALP principles and standards for the farms where PMI sources tobacco.[436] PMI also undertook to identify priority issues on farms and to systematically address issues and measure [the] progress on a long-term basis.[437] Children involved in hazardous work falls under the companys prompt action category.[438] In a February 2014 written response to Human Rights Watch, PMI provided extensive detail about implementation of other aspects of the ALP in the US and globally.[439] PMI also shared with Human Rights Watch details about its monitoring of growers adherence to the ALP in the US and globally, including plans to systematically monitor 100 percent of its farms in the US by 2015.[440] PMI participates in the multi-stakeholder Farm Labor Practices Group and stated that it has assumed leadership roles in subgroups created to address specific issues.[441] In response to Human Rights Watchs findings and recommendations, PMI stated that it would broaden its internal monitoring effort to visit all contracted farms in the US, in addition to the third-party assessment during the 2014 peak season
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