“A contracted toy company producing for McDonald’s employed 400 child workers, who were required to work 16 hours per day and paid 1.5 yuan per hour. The youngest worker was only 14 years old.”
Incident Tag: Excessive Work Hours
Work hours exceeding the limit of 48 hours/week.
The ILO Hours of Work (Industry) Convention (No. 1) of 1919 introduced a maximum standard working time of 48 hours per week and eight hours per day as an international norm. In several exceptional cases, working time is allowed to exceed these limits, as long
as daily working time remains not higher than ten hours, and weekly working time not higher than 56 hours.
“The ILO conventions that address working hours have established a maximum of 48 hours per week plus 12 hours of overtime and this can only be applied on a sometime basis.”
Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 (No. 1)
Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 (No. 30)
These two Conventions set the general standard at 48 regular hours of
work per week, with a maximum of 8 hours per day.
Weekly Rest (Industry) Convention, 1921 (No. 14)
Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106)
Set the general standard that workers shall enjoy a rest period of at least
24 consecutive hours every 7 days.
Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970 (No. 132)
Every person to whom the Convention applies shall enjoy at least three
working weeks of annual paid holiday for one year of service.
Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175)
Requires ratifying states to ensure that part-time workers receive the same
protection, basic wage and social security, as well as employment conditions
equivalent to those accorded to comparable full-time workers.
Chinese worker, 26, making Apple iPhones died after enduring 12 hour shifts, seven days a week, family claim
Worker (26 years old) dies after working 84 hours/week, family claims;12 hour daily shifts; 7 days/week.
Appeal for Worker Poisoned While Producing Dell, HP, Samsonite Bags
34-year old worker poisoned by n-hexane chemical at factory producing computer cases, luggage, and other bags. The worker toiled for over 60 hours/week.
Kalla Fakta: Bakom fabriksgrindarna (Behind the Factory Gates | With English subtitles) – TV4
Documentary investigates low wages, excessive work hours and other labor violations in Dell supply chain factories.
Servants of servers: Forced student labor and rights abuses in Chinese factory that manufactures servers for Dell, HP, and Lenovo (involuntary labor tag?)
Tens of thousands of Chinese students are forced to work as interns in the assembly lines of IT factories. Many of them cannot quit or they will not graduate.
Study Casts Doubts on Apple’s Ethical Standards
Extremely low base wages make workers dependent on excessive overtime work to support their lives in Shanghai. 71.1% of workers’ average toil more than 60 hours/week.
Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK
Slave labor, torture, execution-style killings and human trafficking in Thai fishing boats supplying major supermarkets.
‘SEA SLAVES’: THE HUMAN MISERY THAT FEEDS PETS AND LIVESTOCK
Slave Labor in Indonesian fishing boats linked to pet consumer products – “those who fled recounted horrific violence: the sick cast overboard, the defiant beheaded, the insubordinate sealed for days below deck in a dark, fetid fishing hold.”
European garment workers face forced overtime and poverty wages (Poland)
“Excessively low wages, health hazards, poor legal protection in case of illness and the fact that the rights to holiday leave are rarely exercised.”
Another Fire in Bangladesh: Seven Women Killed at Smart Fashion, Saturday Jan 26
7 women killed in factory fire, including 3 children.