Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 31/03/2008 - 01/03/2008 | Taiway Sports LTD (Part Of Taiwan Diamond Group) (Suppliers Of Kering) (Supplier Of Puma) | Low wages, workhours between 10 to 12 hours/day, 62.5 hour workweeks during peak season among other violations. Workers expressed that they are "treated as pigs". | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Unpaid Overtime | |
| 16/09/2014 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Motiva Enterprises) | Shell & Motiva ordered to compensate 2,677 employees for unpaid overtime back wages in 8 facilities - $4,470,764. | United States | US Department of Labor | Unpaid Overtime |