31 مارس 2025
Speed Up! Addressing forced labor risks in Taiwan’s car, bicycle and electronics industries
الملخص
Date Reported: 31 مارس 2025
الموقع: تايوان
الشركات
ZF Friedrichshafen - Buyer , Vanguard - Investor , Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) - Investor , Dimensional Fund Advisors - Investor , Iron Force Industrial - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الفيلبين , التصنيع: عامة , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
رسوم التوظيفالرد
الرد الوارد: journalist & BHRC
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الإجراءات المتخذة: ZF responded to the journalist, saying the allegations will be investigated. Vanguard, Dimensional did not respond to BHRC; and Norges Bank Investment Management did respond - it's response can be read in the story on BHRC's website.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 31 مارس 2025
الموقع: تايوان
الشركات
Pegatron - Parent Company , Pegavision - Employer , Asustek Computer Inc - Investor , Vanguard - Investor , BlackRock - Investor , Morgan Stanley - Investor , Dimensional Fund Advisors - Investor , Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) - Investorالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - فيتنام , التصنيع: عامة , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الفيلبين , التصنيع: عامة , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
رسوم التوظيف , الترهيب والتهديدالرد
الرد الوارد: BHRC and journalist
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الإجراءات المتخذة: Neither Pegatron nor Pegavision responded to the journalist; in its response to BHRC, ASUS said it has no connection to Pegatron and it became a separate entity from Pegatron in 2008. Responses were also received from BlackRock, Morgan Stanley and Norges Bank Investment Management, which can be read in full on the story on BHRC's website. Vanguard, Dimensional did not respond.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 31 مارس 2025
الموقع: تايوان
الشركات
Topview - Employer , Motorola Solutions - Buyerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - فيتنام , التصنيع: عامة , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
رسوم التوظيف , الترهيب والتهديدالرد
الرد الوارد: journalist
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الإجراءات المتخذة: Motorola Solutions, who told the journalist that suppliers must prohibit recruitment fee charging.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 31 مارس 2025
الموقع: تايوان
الشركات
Axis Technologies - Buyer , Alltronix - Buyer , Advantech - Investor , Dimensional Fund Advisors - Investor , Axiomtek - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - فيتنام , التصنيع: عامة , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , الترهيب والتهديدالرد
الرد الوارد: BHRC and journalist
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الإجراءات المتخذة: The investors did not respond to BHRC.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
...Taiwan is one of the world’s 25 largest economies, known for its sizable electronics industry, while other manufacturing industries - including car parts and bicycles - also contribute to exports.
Majority of Taiwan's 750,000 registered migrant workers are employed in manufacturing, where risking debt bondage is the rule and not the exception, as many incur high debt to pay recruiters exorbitant fees to get jobs. For decades, Taiwanese civil society groups have campaigned against punitive migrant worker conditions, including recruitment fees, but next to no factory cases have reached the international public domain.
This report is a compilation of such factory cases. Its purpose to illustrate how migrant's conditions in Taiwan are directly connected to companies and consumers worldwide. And to illustrate that change-making is possible, even on a shoestring budget. So far, worker reimbursement ($5m) and fee exemptions ($2m) add up to estimatedly $7 million and is expected to reach $10 million in 2025...