Summary: China Labor Watch claims it uncovered "inhumane" treatment of workers, including unpaid work and physical abuse, at factories Samsung and its suppliers operate.
New Samsung Gadgets has been charged of "inhumane" therapy toward workers in the plants the organization and its providers operate in China providers, pushing these workers to perform extra time and in risky conditions.
In a declaration released Wednesday, China providers Work Observe said it discovered "severe labor abuses" at six industries managed by the Southern Japanese technology massive, as well as two features managed by its providers. The offenses included forced extra time perform amounting to more than 100 time a month, overdue perform, and workers being made to stand for 11 to 12 time, it said.
The workers were also suffering from "verbal and physical abuse", and did not have effective internal complaint programs, the group included. "The therapy of Samsung's China manufacturer workers is far from model," the declaration said. "The list of unlawful and brutal offenses is long."
The conclusions follow an Aug report by China providers Work Observe revealing New Samsung employed seven underaged workers. This persuaded the Southern Japanese organization to extend examinations of its providers. On Thursday, New Samsung said it would review more than 250 China organizations which manufactured its products to determine if regulations were broken.
Samsung managed it did not find any child workers after an research of the manufacturer possessed by its China provider, HEG Gadgets, which procedures mobile phone devices, DVDs and stereo system equipment for electronic organizations including Motorola and LG, The South korea Times revealed on Wednesday.
However, it did identify a lack of health care and some poor working surroundings in HEG, which the organization has guaranteed to correct. New Samsung included it was planning two more large-scale probes in Sept of 105 organizations in China providers which specifically supplies to the Japanese organization, and another 144 organizations which have other clients in addition to New Samsung by the end of 2012.
In a declaration released Wednesday, China providers Work Observe said it discovered "severe labor abuses" at six industries managed by the Southern Japanese technology massive, as well as two features managed by its providers. The offenses included forced extra time perform amounting to more than 100 time a month, overdue perform, and workers being made to stand for 11 to 12 time, it said.
The workers were also suffering from "verbal and physical abuse", and did not have effective internal complaint programs, the group included. "The therapy of Samsung's China manufacturer workers is far from model," the declaration said. "The list of unlawful and brutal offenses is long."
The conclusions follow an Aug report by China providers Work Observe revealing New Samsung employed seven underaged workers. This persuaded the Southern Japanese organization to extend examinations of its providers. On Thursday, New Samsung said it would review more than 250 China organizations which manufactured its products to determine if regulations were broken.
Samsung managed it did not find any child workers after an research of the manufacturer possessed by its China provider, HEG Gadgets, which procedures mobile phone devices, DVDs and stereo system equipment for electronic organizations including Motorola and LG, The South korea Times revealed on Wednesday.
However, it did identify a lack of health care and some poor working surroundings in HEG, which the organization has guaranteed to correct. New Samsung included it was planning two more large-scale probes in Sept of 105 organizations in China providers which specifically supplies to the Japanese organization, and another 144 organizations which have other clients in addition to New Samsung by the end of 2012.
