Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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22/06/2016 | Dongguan Chenming Electronic Company Ltd (Supplier Of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) | Worker died of heart attack which came from excessive overtime, fellow worker claims; workers had to work over a month without even a day off; they may be required to work overtime all night. | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Excessive Work Hours | |
17/04/2014 | (International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) | Ford and IBM will again have to face a U.S. lawsuit claiming they encouraged human rights abuses such as killings and tortures in apartheid-era South Africa. | South Africa | Reuters | Deaths, Killings, Oppressive Regimes, Torture | |
31/05/2011 - 01/05/2011 | Flextronics Ltd., Co. (Supplier Of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) | During peak season (June-October), workers must work 10.5 hours daily, 7 days/week. Working hours exceed 310 hours per month, including 130 hours of overtime. A 23-year-old male worker was recently killed in the warehouse when a vehicle loaded with products backed into him. | Zhuhai, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
01/02/2007 | Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited (Supplier Of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) | Labor concerns at factory (about 12,000 employees) manufacturing electronic components: contract workers discriminated vis-à-vis regular workers; wages not sufficient to cover living expenditures; LCD workers solder lead and inhale the smoke; accident reported in 2001 were 6 people died after building collapse. | Thailand | SOMO | Deaths, Discrimination, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard |