Polishing workers are exposed to black dust and fumes without wearing masks, or other health and safety equipment. The company provides them with such, only when there’s an outside inspection.
Incident Tag: Occupational Hazard
Lack of necessary safety equipment
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Xinhui Ri)
Workers toil for 11 hours/day, 26 days/month in low season, and 30 days/month in high season. Essential safety equipment is missing, and it is not given to workers unless there is an inspection. If the inspection finds any violation, management forces workers to pay the fine.
ANOTHER SAMSUNG SUPPLIER EXPLOITING CHILD LABOR
Adult and child workers (including 5 children under 16) are made to work 11 hours per day, as many as 30 days per month coming in contact with harmful chemicals, such as industrial alcohol and thinners. Monthly overtime may reach up to 120 hours.
iExploitation: Apple Supplier Jabil Exploits Workers to Meet iPhone 6 Demands (Sep 25, 2014)
Labor violations at factory (30,000 workers) including: unsafe working environment, verbally abusive management, workforce dependent on overtime wages, cases of unpaid overtime wages, crowded dormitories (8 people/per room).
Something’s Not Right Here: Poor Working Conditions Persist at Apple Supplier Pegatron
Workers producing iPhone 6s spend as much as 119 overtime hours/month, and once home they sleep in moldy, unhygienic dorms infested with bed bugs alongside 13 other people.
FLA 9/12/2014
Workers endure exposure to dangerous chemicals, inadequate safety measures and excessive overtime.
FLA – 5/5/2015
Workers’ hours exceeded 60 hours per week, with “many workers” working between 14 and 18 hours per day. Multiple health and safety violations not addressed including chemical hazard.
The Other Side of Fairy Tales (Zhenyang)
Devastating sweatshop conditions with workers exposed to toxic chemicals such as industrial alcohol and acetone, or extremely loud machines. Factory’s industrial waste water is discharged directly into a nearby river without treatment.
The Other Side of Fairy Tales: An investigation of labor conditions at five Chinese toy factories (Combine Will)
Workers do 13.5 hour daily shifts accumulating up to or more than 100 hours of overtime per month, nearly three times the Chinese legal maximum. They’re not permitted to go to the restroom or get water because it is deemed a risk to production speed.
The Other Side of Fairy Tales: An investigation of labor conditions at five Chinese toy factories (Winson)
Lack of protective equipment, while workers exposed to toxic chemicals. Workload reaching 11 hours/day, 6 days/week. Cramped dormitories containing 12 people/room.