Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15/07/2008 | Hantai Shoe Production Ltd. (Supplier Of Walmart) | Long hours, verbal and physical abuse at shoe factory; 8 hour shifts plus 4,5 hours forced overtime; overall stay (work & breaks) for workers at factory 15,5 hours. | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Abusive Management, Beatings & Violence, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Unpaid Overtime | |
| 16/06/2008 | Lever Style (Supplier Of Paul Smith) (Supplier Of John Varvatos) (Supplier Of J.Crew) (Supplier Of Hugo Boss) (Supplier Of Gap) (Supplier Of Armani) (Supplier Of Calvin Klein) (Supplier Of Cerruti) (Supplier Of Banana Republic) (Supplier Of Ann Inc.) (Supplier Of Abercrombie & Fitch) | Investigation reports low wages and 10 hour shifts/day at factory producing clothes. | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage | |
| 16/06/2008 | Dongguan Surpassing Shoe Co. Ltd (Supplier Of Puma) | Wages as low as 64 cents an hour, forced overtime, 12-hour shifts, 6 days/week, some times even overnight on Saturdays for factory workers making sports shoes. | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Abusive Management, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 26/08/2013 | (Suppliers Of Walmart) | Unregulated subcontractors using child labor (as low as 14 years of age) go rife in Walmart's supply chain. | Bangladesh | Al Jazeera | Child Labor | |
| 26/08/2013 | (Supplier Of Old Navy) (Supplier Of Gap) | Investigation in unregulated subcontracting vendors finds multiple children manufacturing clothes. Some identified aged 12 and 14. Children earned as low as $32/month. | Bangladesh | Al Jazeera | Child Labor, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 18/09/2006 | Apple | Laboratory test reveals highest level of a type of toxic flame retardant, tetrabromobisphenol A, in Apple's MacBooks. | Denmark | Greenpeace | Negligence | |
| 18/09/2006 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) | Laboratory tests reveal high levels of toxic chemical decaBDE in HP laptops, despite HP claims of having removed decaBDE from its products years ago. | Denmark | Greenpeace | Consumer Deception, Negligence | |
| 18/08/2006 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Apple says report of labour conditions at unnamed iPod plant found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time and worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time. [Report criticised by a leading international trade union organisation for not being independently verified.] | China | BBC | Excessive Work Hours | |
| 26/06/2006 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Foxconn admits that their employees work about 80 extra hours each month, which is against the law in China. | China | China CSR | Excessive Work Hours | |
| 11/06/2006 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Newspaper reports that workers producing iPods receive as little as £27 a month, doing 15-hour shifts. | Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | BBC | Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage |