SAMSUNG: Chinese workers and labour rights

 “Hey, I just bought new Galaxy S3 and it is made by the 14 years old Chinese guy, who worked 10 hours just to get a piece of bread, but whatever Idon’t care…cuz I’ve got my brand new S3 ”

Samsung – well known, top rated high tech Manufacturing Corporation that sells its products across the world. Consumers, who all around the world use Samsung’s phones, computers, tablets and even Samsung cars, don’t even know how Samsung produces its products. It is appeared that the highly innovativecompany does not compliance with law. The New York-based NGO China Labor Watch says that “employees working more than 100 hours of overtime in a month; children under 16 working in factories; failure to provide safety clothing where appropriate.”  Workers on the factories of Samsung want to have more overtime. It does not mean that the things in those factories are going well and people are happy to work there. Samsung pays miserable salary to its workers, so workers want more overtime. Samsung purposely pays them poor salary, so employees literally beg them to get more hours to work. Now let’s look at the Apple’s case, where Apple orders some parts of their gadgets to the Chinese manufacturing company named Foxconn. Foxconn does not compliance with law as well. The environment where Foxconn’s employees work is terrible, but Foxconn is not Aplle, so Apple not guilty here. Now, let’s return to Samsung again, in comparison to Apple, Samsung has its own factories and its own workers. It means that Samsung should be responsible for the workers, so we can say that Samsung earns their money by using mean ways. They earn their money by the hands of little children. So it is a big business ethics issue

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