Significantly low wages, and production quotas which if not reached workers must toil additional hours without overtime pay assembling wires.
Incident Tag: Unpaid Overtime
Overtime numeration/hour should be higher than base wage hours.
Letter calls Gucci stores ’sweatshops’
Five former Gucci-employees publicly release an open letter claiming that the company was a “sweatshop”, alleging abusive management, over 12 hour daily shifts, at times staying until 2-3:00 am, forced overtime, among other grievances.
The Failure of Target’s Audit System in its Chinese Supplier Factories
Clothing factory among occupational safety issues, currently runs on 10 hour daily shifts, 28 days/month; 30 days/month (no days off) when receiving multiple production orders.
Shenzhen, China: NGO survey of working conditions in 13 electronics factories supplying 47 brands finds abuses including child labour, discrimination, excessive overtime
An investigation of 13 Shenzhen electronics factories producing components for many well-known brand names found widespread labour abuses.
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.
European garment workers face forced overtime and poverty wages (Czech)
Unpaid overtime or unpaid bonuses, illegal deductions from wages and forced overtime worked via various threats of sanctions.
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.
Dirty Toys Made in China Holiday Toys Made Under Sweatshop Conditions. December 10, 2015
“Both hands must be constantly moving.” 12 to 13-plus hour shifts in near freezing conditions, earning as little as $1.36 an hour. Fumes from chemicals including industrial alcohol, phenylenediamine and sodium peroxide cause nausea, dizziness and headaches.
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.