4 February 2015, FMT News PETALING JAYA: The use of independent agencies in hiring workers is a major hindrance to ensuring decent working conditions in the Malaysian electronics industry, according to the Washington-based Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC). Because the agencies are in reality the employers, it’s difficult for the companies belonging to the coalition […]
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7 January 2015, Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition On 7 January 2015, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition released a position paper in response to the study on forced labour in Malaysia’s electronics industry published by Verité in 2014. This position paper outlines the EICC’s initiatives in combatting forced labour and revisions to its code of conduct to
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7 January 2015, The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 07 /CSRwire/ – The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of leading electronics companies dedicated to supply chain responsibility, today announced that it will conduct shadow audits and increase its industry and government engagement in Malaysia to further combat forced labor. The
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10 November 2014, Market Wired PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 10, 2014) – HP (NYSE: HPQ) today took a major step forward in expanding its leading supply chain program on preventing exploitative labor practices and forced labor. HP is the first company in the IT industry to require direct employment of foreign migrant workers in
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19 September 2014, FMT News PETALING JAYA: The widespread practice of forced labour in Malaysia has alarmed the International Labour Organization (ILO) whose Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) have said this practice must “be urgently addressed”. To this end, the ILO has begun working with the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) to develop
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19 September 2014, Malaysiakini.com The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), is seriously concerned about the findings of the report by Verité, ‘Forced Labour in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia, A Comprehensive Study of Scope and Characteristics’. Although ROAP is not in a position to verify the
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