More bad news for Samsung as a new report says one of the company’s suppliers in China is engaging child labor. The Shinyang Electronics factory has been identified by China Labor Watch, a New York-based organization, as having several children and underage student workers employed at the plant. CLW alleges that not only are children being used, they are being forced to work 11 hour days with no overtime pay nor are they receiving social insurance.
This report comes on the heels of another report that Samsung released indicating several of its suppliers were not meeting appropriate safety standards. However, Samsung said none of the suppliers were employing child labor. Samsung says “we are urgently looking into the latest allegations and will take appropriate measures in accordance with our policies to prevent any cases of child labor in our suppliers.”
Samsung is not alone in trying to get a handle on child labor issues with suppliers located in China. CLW has documented similar issues for Apple’s suppliers along with a host of major corporations from outside the tech industry. CLW contends companies are too lax in their attempts to get Chinese suppliers to live up to acceptable codes of conduct and social commitments.
source: SamMobile
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