Sweatshops for Bebe Clothing Working Conditions and the Impact it had on the Environment

In March 2004, Bebe stores agreed to a settlement in a federal lawsuit that was originally filed in December 2001 alleging sweatshops in California for the company bebe. Thirteen employees sued bebe for harassment and inhumane treatment and for working 11 hrs a day and six days a week. The company had denied a minimum wage and made the workers work overtime and punch out the time clock when they were suppose to get off, but they would stay over the hours and never get paid. The terms of the settlement were not publicly disclosed it was long overdue.
This is a huge impact on the environmet because of how the company treats its workers. It is normal to find sweatshops and how they mistreat their workers. That is a big deal in my eyes and I know that I am not the only one who thinks that there is something wrong with what's going on in companies today. I think the way a company is viewed should be by the way that you treat ur customers, but especially for the ones that work for the company. How bad does it look when the company mistreats their own? It just means that, that is one of the things that Bebe needs to work on as a whole. Bebe was kind of hush hush about the situation and the only way that anyone could have found this information out was by doing lots of research about this company. In many instances people are too busy now a days and don't have the time to just go and research things. They have heard about sweatshops, but I don't think people take the time out of the day to look at what is really going on here. Bebe kind of in a way were trying to play the I didn't do it card and just got caught in the action. I think that Bebe deserves to give the hardworkers their pay that they never got, and they owe a full out apology to their customers, but especially their workers.