Samsung accused of China labor breaches

Samsung Electronics has been accused of breaching labor law at six factories in China by China Labor Watch, a US-based non-profit organization.

The investigative report published by the group, which alleges a series of “illegal and inhumane violations”, is a fresh blow to the South Korean company's reputation following last month's high-profile US legal defeat to Apple. Undercover investigators at eight Chinese factories supplying Samsung, of which six are controlled by the company, reported that workers at all the plants routinely worked more than the legally permitted amount of overtime. They also said that most of the factories did not uphold workers’ legal rights to a labor contract, and that workers had inadequate means of expressing grievances to their managers.