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.
Incident Tag: Inspection Fraud
Incident where managers and factory workers cheat on inspections.
CBS News goes undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory
Child labor – workers as young as 12 years old, abusive management, unpaid wages and fire hazards in clothing factory.
Bangladesh Garment Factories Often Evade Monitoring
Excessive work hours at factory (4.500 workers) producing garments; many employees routinely work more than 100 hours/week; regularly work may last until 5 a.m to meet production targets.
International Label Children’s Clothing Made Under Slave-like Conditions in Bangladesh
Production manager routinely slaps and punches young workers for failing to meet production goals; work from 8:00 a.m. to 10-11:00 p.m. 6 days/week; plus 9-10 hour work on 7th day; 94 to 101 hours/week; 41 cents (US)/ hour for senior operator.
Wal-Mart and Disney Toys from Hell
Work hours reaching 15,5 hours not including the two meal breaks, 6 ½ hours of overtime daily, 7 days/week at peak seasons, and Lack of fire protection. “It’s very unsafe. If there was an emergency, people could not get out!”
Gap and Old Navy in Bangladesh: cheating the poorest workers in the world
14- to – 23 hour shifts, 7 days/week, reaching to massive 210 hours of overtime, even for pregnant women; extreme work hours; beatings; humiliation; death threats; starvation wages (20 to 24 cents per hour); workers visibly sick, exhausted and dazed.
Two Years of Broken Promises
Two investigations throughout 2013-2014 find labor violations at factory (20,000 workers) including: excessive overtime nearly 100 hours/month, hazardous waste poured into a nearby river, unsafe working environment. Catcher workers have “suffered skin and eye irritation, and are at risk for more serious health problems” making tablet computers, smartphones and laptops.
Who Else Continues to Exploit Toy Workers? (Lung Cheong)
Excessive overtime, 12/hour shifts, six day workweeks, low wages and exposure to harmful chemicals. “A number of workers in the painting department said that the paint odor was extremely bad and that they suffered from nausea and diarrhea.”
Who Else Continues to Exploit Toy Workers? (2nd Chang ’ an Mattel Toy Factory)
Despite the 11.5 hour work shifts in Chang’ an Mattel Toy Factory, workers only receive a 30 minute meal break. Overtime reaching nearly three times the legal limit.
Barbie, Mickey Mouse, Optimus Prime, Thomas the Tank Engine: Who Else Continues to Exploit Toy Workers? (Coronet Toys)
“work is at least 11.5 hours a day” for every Coronet worker handling “poisonous to human health” chemicals with limited or no protective equipment. Their dormitories stack up to 18 workers per room.