Name and shame
To name and shame is to "publicly say that a person, group or business has done something wrong".
There is some evidence that naming and shaming can reduce atrocities and make the named and shamed governments improve their human rights records.[3][4][5][6] Some scholars, however, question whether naming-and-shaming has the intended effects.[7][6][5]
International relations
Naming and shaming is a common strategy to compel and deter changes in state and non-state behavior. It is a prevalent strategy when states engage in human rights abuses.[8][9][10] It has also been used to compel improvements in environmental policies,[11][12] stopping whaling being one such example.[13][14]
Public policy usage
Naming offending individuals or businesses (with the implied objective of shaming them) is sometimes used as an instrument of public policy intended to promote compliance with legal obligations or with the duty to put right the damage caused by non-compliance.
Examples are:
- The UK government established a scheme in 2010 to "name businesses which have failed to pay the National Minimum Wage to their employees. The policy objective of the naming scheme is "to raise awareness of minimum wage enforcement and deter employers who would otherwise be tempted to break minimum wage law". According to a government policy statement, this practice has been adopted because "the government recognises that some employers are more likely to respond to the social and economic sanctions that may flow from details of their payment practices being made public, than from financial deterrents".[15]
- In December 2018, the UK
- In 2013, trading standards regulators to "name and shame" businesses that have failed to correct poor practices which affect consumers.[18]
- From July 2008, the NSW Food Authority has a public list of businesses that have breached food safety regulations to give "consumers more information to make decisions about where they eat or buy food".[19]
References
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- ^ Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, National Minimum Wage Law: Enforcement, published November 2017, accessed 3 January 2019
- ^ Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (2018), Naming Scheme for Unpaid Employment Tribunal Awards, published 17 December 2018, accessed 28 December 2018
- ^ Taylor, M. (2017), Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, page 62, accessed 28 December 2018
- ^ BBC News, Name firms that mistreat consumers says Citizens Advice, published 12 June 2013, accessed 3 January 2018
- ^ NSW Food Authority, NSW Food Authority Name And Shame, accessed 26 February 2021