Please read the article above and answer the question below:

Apply a framework to the situation and suggest an ethical course of action based on that framework (what should be done)

Ethical Frameworks to apply:

Egoism

Utilitarianism

Kantian Ethics

Prima Facie

Libertarian

Theory of Justice

Descriptive Ethics

CASE 4.1 Catastrophe in Bangladesh RANA PLAZA WAS A NONDESCRIPT EIGHT-STORY is manulactured in poor countries like Bangladesh. And n bulding in a modest suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Owned by wonder. Although the minimum wage for garment workers in Sohel Pana, a politically well-connected figure, it housed a bank _Bangladesh was recently doubled, it is still only $38 per month. and a few shops on its lower floors, but most of Rana Plaza was As a result, since 1998 clothing costs for American consumers given over to five garment factories. They employed around have dropped 7 to 8 percent, and corporate protits have been 5,000 people making clothes for companies in North America high. In this world of globalized capitalism, many people are askand Europe. In April 2013, cracks appeared in the bulling's ing, what are the responsibilities of companies and consumers structure. Building inspectors ordered Rana Plaza to be evacu- _ to workers in tarawey countries? ated, after which the bank and the shops immediately closed-__ One monitoring group estimates that Bangladesh's 5,000 ated, after which the bank and the shops immediately closed- _ One monitoring group estimates that Bangladesi's 5,000 but not the garment factories. They ordered their employees to factories could be elevated to Western safety standards for, on return to work the following day. On that fateful day-April 24, average, $600,000. That would add up to $3 bilion. Howere, 2013 - at around 9:00a a.m., Rana Plaza collapsed. 1,129 gar- It that were spread over five years, it would add only about ment workers were killed, and around 2,500 were injured. It was 10 cents to the factory price of each of the 7 bilion garments the deadliest garment factory disaster ever, and probably the that Bangladesh sels every year to Western brands. Meanuhile, most lethal accidental collapse of a building in modern history. =0 several prominent retailers and labor groups have joined forces In the aftermath, Sohel Rana and the owners of the five to cieate an esirnated S40 milion compensabion fund iv as was accused of having helped Rana to add three illegal sto- have controuted to the fund are Bon March, El Corte hytis. ries to the building. The Bangladesh High Court ordered the property seized and the assets of the factory owners frozen to ensure that the workers' salaries were paid. The Bangladesh "we came very quicidy to the conclusion that compensation w3s government suspended the local mayor and several inspectors who were accused of negligence in renewing the licenses of many retalers sourcing from Rana Plaza." the garment factories. Families of the victims received some _ No American companies, however, have agreed to join the short-term assistance from the povernment, but workers who compersation efforts. Walmart, for example, denies that it has families, children have had to go to work because their mothers duced there without its knowledge by a Canadian contradux And it is true that Westem companies do not own third-wort are dead. Since the disaster, there has been some soul searching in the true that Western companies do not own thiruturas gament factories llee those in Rana Plaza, and they do rot West. Documents and remnants of apparel Ink the Pana Plaza directy enploy the workers who make the apparel they set. factories to twenty-five European and American clothing brands . Those workers work for companies that work for other concu- or clothing retailers, including Walmart. That's not too surprising. nies that provide the gaments to Westem ciothing companies or clothing retailers, inctuding Waimart. That's not too surporsing. and retailers. and dingy workplaces for paltry wages. But if you lived in a third-world country and had no other opportunity but a low-wage sweatshop job, you might well be happy to take it. Critics contend that such "opportunities" still amount to exploitation