Workers exposed to hazardous toxins such as “polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) during the coating process and a wax stripper substance, which are poisonous to human health, without wearing protective masks”. Factories lack essential safety precautions such as carbon masks, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, etc.
Incident Tag: Unpaid Overtime
Overtime numeration/hour should be higher than base wage hours.
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Anotech)
Over exhausted workforce sleeping next to machines in the workshop. Their safety “equipment distributed is insufficient”. On the day of the investigation “a worker’s hand was smashed by a pressing machine”.
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Linkfair)
Fingers crushed and other hand injuries occur in Linkfair factory where workers toil with limited occupational safety. “During high season, workers will have a shift every day of the month without rest, including daily overtime (accumulating between 124 – 154 hours/month, between three and four times the Chinese legal maximum). “When the factory is unable to pay insurance, management will give workers 100 RMB ($16) to lie to government inspectors.”
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Three A)
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.
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).
Follow-up Investigation of Worker Strike at Jingyu Toy Products
Occasions of long overtime in busy seasons. Worker explains: “The factory makes workers toil until 2 in the morning, still expecting them to come to work later in the morning for the day shift.”
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.