CSR

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important factor if you want your company to have a good reputation and be successful. Unfortunately, not all companies care about CSR. The hotel Dragon Gate in Älvkarleby is one of them. The Chinese businessman and billionaire Jingchung Li bought the hotel Check point Dalelven but tore it down to build a new and bigger hotel, Dragon Gate. The project started in 2004 and his plan was to build a luxurious hotel in Chinese style and to get everything the way he wanted he started to send Chinese workers to Sweden. But working conditions and wages are very different in China and Sweden and the workers got treated like they would in China, which is a huge problem since you can't get nearly as much things for the same amount of money in Sweden. Also the safety on the construction site was terrible. The workers were not provided with any safety clothing but they were working in normal clothes and they had an illegal elevator which could collapse whenever. Swedish work inspectors came to shut it down but as soon as they left, the elevator was put back into work. There has been no less than 13 cases concerning Dragon Gate, and their penalty was on over 1.1 million for violating the Working Environment Act. In 2005 it had gone so far that Dragon Gate was threatened with blockade so that they wouldn't be able to import any material from China until they met all requirements. Also due to all the illegal businesses that had been going on at the hotel it got voted as the worst construction of the year in 2006.