A factory in China that builds phone casings for Samsung faces accusations that it treats its workers poorly, prompting the electronics giant to investigate.
Workers at a factory run by South Korea-based Samkwang in Dongguan,China, generally log between 86 to 148 overtime hours each month, giving the employees little time to rest, according to a Thursday report from the New York-based China Labor Watch.
The workers, on average, receive $450 a month assembling shell casings for Samsung’s Galaxy SIII Mini handset, the watchdog group said in its undercover investigation. The factory is required to assemble 15,000 phone casings a day. The employees, however, are given no safety training, and some are forced to work barefoot at certain facilities at the factory.
”However, the facilities’ team leaders, directors, and corporate members are allowed to enter facilities in slippers,” the report said. “Nobody ever explained why workers must be barefoot.”
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