Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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17/02/2016 | Samsung | Interviews underline labor concerns at Samsung facility (~2, 500 workers) manufacturing air-conditions and refrigerators: salaries not enough to meet monthly expenses and to provide for their families; monthly wages between Rs 6,200 - Rs 12,000 ($92 - $178); hiring of contract workers/apprentices for the same work, but lower pay; 10-11 hour daily shifts during high season, 6-7 days/week; cases of unpaid overtime wage; compulsory overtime; workers victimised, dismissed, or put under pressure to resign, if they attempt to unionise. | Sungavarchatram, Tamil Nadu, India | Good Electronics | Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage, Union Repression, Unpaid Overtime | |
24/09/2008 | (Suppliers Of Samsung) | Report reveals severe violations of workers’ rights in Asian (China, Philippines) mobile phone factories. | China and Philippines | SOMO | Abusive Management, Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Union Repression | |
01/02/2007 | Micro-device Technology (Supplier Of Samsung) | Union formation is strictly prohibited by management at factory (900 workers) producing electronics. | Philippines | SOMO | Forced Overtime, Union Repression | |
01/02/2007 | San Technology Inc (Supplier Of Samsung) | Labor issues at factory (2,000 employees) producing HDD materials: compulsury overtime; 12 hour daily shifts, 6-7 days/week (72-84 hours/week); union formation prevented by management in 2003. | Cavite, Philippines | SOMO | Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Union Repression |