Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/08/2015 | Ever Force Toys and Electronics Company (Supplier Of Mattel) | "Company “boss” ran away, leaving workers with three months of unpaid wages and four months of unpaid insurance contributions." | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Unpaid Insurance, Unpaid Wages | |
| 07/08/2015 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Female worker found lying dead on the ground outside Foxconn's Zaofu factory. | Zhengzhou, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths | |
| 04/08/2015 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Male worker at Foxconn factory jumped from building to his death. | Zhengzhou, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Suicides | |
| 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 | |
| 01/03/2016 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Two new legal cases launched against the oil giant Shell over damage caused to the environment in Nigeria from repeated large scale oil spills. | Ogoni, Rivers, Nigeria | Leigh Day | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 10/11/1995 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell charged with complicity in human rights abuses against the Ogoni people of Nigeria. Abuses include: "summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, inhumane treatment, arbitrary arrest, wrongful death, and assault and battery." Case settled for $15.5 million. | Ogoni, Rivers, Nigeria | Center for Constitutional Rights, The Guardian | Assault and Battery, Deaths, Killings, Summary Executions, Torture | |
| 23/02/2016 | Johnson & Johnson | J & J ordered to pay damages for woman's death from ovarian cancer linked to her use of the company's talcum-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades - $72 million | Birmingham, Alabama, United States | Reuters | Consumer Deception, Deaths, Fraud, Negligence | |
| 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 |