Archives: Incidents
Filter tag: Excessive Work Hours(clear filter)
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27/08/2000 | (Supplier Of McDonald's) | "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." | China | China Labor Watch | Child Labor, Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Inspection Fraud, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Union Repression, Unpaid Insurance | |
| 03/02/2015 | Pegatron Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Worker (26 years old) dies after working 84 hours/week, family claims;12 hour daily shifts; 7 days/week. | Shanghai, China | Daily Mail | Deaths, Excessive Work Hours | |
| 14/05/2015 | Hangzhou Ligao Travel Products (League) (Supplier Of Dell) (Supplier Of Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Supplier Of Samsonite) | 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. | China | China Labor Watch | Excessive Work Hours, Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard | |
| 20/05/2015 | (Supplier Of Dell) | Documentary investigates low wages, excessive work hours and other labor violations in Dell supply chain factories. | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | Kalla Fatka - TV4 | Abusive Management, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage | |
| 05/10/2015 | Wistron Corporation (Supplier Of Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Supplier Of Lenovo) (Supplier Of Dell) | 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. | Zhongshan, Guangdong, China | DANWATCH | Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime | |
| 24/02/2016 | Pegatron Group (Supplier Of Apple) | 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. | Shanghai, China | China Labor Watch | Excessive Work Hours, Inspection Fraud, Non-Living Wage, Unpaid Overtime | |
| 10/06/2014 | (Supplier Of Charoen Pokphand Foods) (Supplier Of Walmart) (Supplier Of Tesco) (Supplier Of Costco) (Supplier Of Carrefour) (Supplier Of The co-operative) (Supplier Of Aldi) (Supplier Of Iceland) (Supplier Of Morrisons) | Slave labor, torture, execution-style killings and human trafficking in Thai fishing boats supplying major supermarkets. | Thailand | The Guardian | Beatings & Violence, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, Killings, Suicides, Summary Executions, Torture | |
| 27/07/2015 | (Suppliers Of Songkla Canning Public Company Limited) (Suppliers Of Thai Union Group) (Suppliers Of Iams) (Suppliers Of Meow Mix) (Suppliers Of Fancy Feast) | 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." | Songkhla Thailand | The New York Times | Beatings & Violence, Child Labor, Deaths, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, Injuries & Diseases, Killings | |
| 02/02/2016 | (Suppliers Of Levi's) (Suppliers Of Hugo Boss) (Suppliers Of Vistula) | "Excessively low wages, health hazards, poor legal protection in case of illness and the fact that the rights to holiday leave are rarely exercised." | Poland | Clean Clothes Campaign | Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 26/01/2013 | Smart Fashion (Supplier Of Bershka) (Supplier Of lefties,) (Supplier Of Inditex) (Supplier Of SOL'S) (Supplier Of Scott & Fox) | 7 women killed in factory fire, including 3 children. | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights | Child Labor, Deaths, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Injuries & Diseases, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard |