After commissioning an external agency to conduct on-site checks for 100 suppliers in China last year, Samsung discovered pervasive labor violations such as discriminatory language in recruitment notices or contracts, careless administrative errors and excessive overtime hours in a majority of the suppliers. In Samsung’s Sustainability Report for 2014, the company has detailed its code of conduct and provided solutions for each and every violation the agency disclosed. According to the report, minors were found handling hazardous chemicals at 48 suppliers, administrative errors were found at 33 suppliers, 39 suppliers paid employees fixed wages regardless of overtime work, 7 suppliers didn’t train managers on disciplinary actions and a whopping 59 suppliers didn’t provide proper protective gear to keep their employees safe. In response, Samsung
These are the awful labor violations Samsung discovered at its suppliers’ factories
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