According to Chris MacDonald’s article taken from Canadian Business, Samsung has been accused of ignoring the workers’ rights and mistreating its factory workers in China. A report by the New York-based NGO China Labour Watch showed that the employees were working more than one hundred hours over time within a month, with children under the age of sixteen working in factories.
Yet, despite the difficulties that they endure, many of the employees voluntary asked for more overtime. This proved the company’s inability to support its employees. The fact that these workers want more overtime showed that they needed additional money than what they earned during regular hours; thus, confirming their insufficient wages.
In addition, China Labor Watch also issued that workers in the factories lacked a voice or system that allowed them to lodge complaints. The existence of such mechanism would surely be represented as having a right. The unavailability of such system within a workplace, therefore, would be considered as ignoring the workers’ rights.
Stan Abrams, a law professor, pointed out that Samsung owns and controls many of its own companies which were accused of ignoring labour rights. Thus, the company cannot deny the fact of not knowing the mistreatment of the workers.
source:
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog/business_ethics/97780–samsung-chinese-workers-and-labour-rights
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