The United States Department of Labour (DoL) has found widespread violations by employers in paying wages to workers in the Southern California garment industry. In fiscal year 2014, DoL’s Wage and Hour Division conducted 221 ...
Tags: unpaid wage, minimum wage, Apparel
The following is a joint statement by the Department of State, the Department of Labor, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative: Today, the United States is outlining next steps in a longstanding effort to address in a ...
Samsung Electronics has rejected allegations that underage workers are assembling its products after three non-government organizations (NGO) filed a complaint with a French prosecutor's office claiming that the tech company was violating ...
Tags: Samsung Electronics, labor regulation, China
Apple found 11 facilities within its supply chain using underage labor last year, and went as far to sever ties with one Chinese component maker for failing to prevent the violations. The company's crackdown on underage labor violations ...
IDG News Service - Despite Samsung Electronics' efforts to rectify labor violations at its factories in China, little has changed for some workers. "Samsung had its investigators come to the factory. When they came, they just walked ...
Tags: Samsung Electronics, labor violations, Long Work Hours
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement found serious violations of federal and state labor laws by each of 10 garment contractors inspected during a sweep of a single ...
Tags: garment district, garment, garment contractors, garments producing
Samsung is facing accusations that the company deliberately tried to hide the employment of underage workers at a Chinese supplier, after a labor protection group said it found three girls under the age of 16 employed at the factory. On ...
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Samsung Electronics announced new measures to keep its suppliers in China compliant with labor laws after it completed a round of audits that found problems relating to overtime and the way penalties were carried out. The South Korean ...
Tags: South Korean, China, Samsung, labor laws, China Labor Watch
The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
Tags: Foxconn, Apple, iPhone, electronics, TVs, handsets, PCs