The Guardian | 8 November 2018 Two years after migrants working for global electronics firms in Malaysia complained of labour abuses, change seems slow. Every day, the men who live here work on factory lines making components used by Samsung Electronics, one of the biggest electronics companies in the world. Last year, Samsung made a […]
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By Pete Pattisson The Guardian 9 May 2017 Labour rights groups have cast doubt on the impact and scope of proposals by Panasonic and Samsung to address the alleged abuse of foreign migrants in their supply chains in Malaysia. Last November, a Guardian investigation highlighted claims that workers making goods for the global electronics brands
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By Pete Pattisson The Guardian, Monday 21 November 2016 Samsung and Panasonic, two of the world’s leading electronics brands, are facing allegations that workers in their supply chains are being duped, exploited and underpaid in Malaysia. The two companies have launched investigations into allegations of abuse made by Nepalese workers after a Guardian investigation raised
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By Pete Pattisson Monday 21 November 2016 03.00 GMT It is eight o’clock in the industrial area of Port Klang, an hour’s drive west of Kuala Lumpur, and the entrance to the Samsung factory is heaving with workers. As hundreds of men and women pour out of the factory gates into the clammy air, hundreds
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10 April 2015, Staffing Industry Analysis An association of global electronics companies voted to prohibit the charging of recruitment fees to workers, either by recruiters or directly by employers. The Electronics Industry Citizenship Council said excessive recruitment fees can lead to forced labor, trapping workers in debt to the labor broker or employment agency that recruited
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17 September 2014, New York Times Nearly one in three migrant workers in Malaysia’s thriving electronics industry toils under forced labor conditions, essentially trapped in the job, a factory monitoring group found in a report issued on Wednesday. The monitoring group, Verité — which conducted a two-year investigation commissioned by the United States Department of
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