Samsung workers in a smartphone plant in Vietnam say that the company has reduced its output as merchants and warehouses struggle with growing inventories due to a global decline in consumer spending. In an exclusive…
French courts file preliminary charges against Samsung over misleading advertising on its commitment to human and worker rights. In 2018, Sherpa and ActionAid France filed a lawsuit against Samsung, accusing the company of false advertising due…
Workers fell sick and died due to exposure to hazardous chemicals in their chip labs, Korea Workers Compensation & Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) concluded on May 22, after reviewing ten years of epidemiological data. A Decade…
Lee Jong-ran (right), labor attorney with SHARPS, helps Hwang Sang-ki (left), a SHARPS founder, put on a clean suit ahead of a rally against Samsung in 2016. Samsung listed Lee and Hwang as “persons of…
The 2018 Annual Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics outlines the deadly consequences of toxic exposure in the workplace. In fact, around 2.8 million workers a year die due to unsafe or unhealthy conditions,…
After Samsung launched its new compensation scheme in Nov. 2018, about 62% of new victims have been classed as not eligible for compensation. As identified by a SHARPS investigation, this is largely because their disease…
Samsung Electronics must engage with unions to make safer workplaces, says IndustriALL Global Union after the company recently agreed to pay compensation to hundreds of workers who have contracted life-threatening diseases at its factories in…
Samsung group under pressure to sell of financial units, including its life insurance company, as President Moon Jae-in of South Korea aims to weaken the country’s family-owned ‘chaebol’ conglomerates. The reforms make up part of Moon’s…
Samsung offer a formal apology to the workers and families affected by illness and death, publically admitting responsibility for the employees affected by health issues at its South Korean semiconductor and LCD plants since 1984….
An investigation by the Gaurdian reveals that migrant workers in Samsung’s factories continue to face human rights violations, despite guidelines set out by the company to protect foriegn workers. The investigation at a Samsung plant…