Around 280 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages…

The workers at Kawaguchi Manufacturing's factory in Port Klang, Malaysia's largest port city, were left stranded when the company withheld their wages for up to eight months before shutting down late last year…

Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have accelerated that trend as factories move from China to places in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam …

The factory shut down in December, soon after Sony Group and Panasonic Holdings Corp., two of Kawaguchi's main customers, halted their orders in response to the allegations against their supplier…

The Associated Press got no response to multiple requests to Kawaguchi for comment…

Panasonic, Sony and Daikin, three of Kawaguchi's former main customers among about a dozen, agreed to cover an estimated $1.3 million of the recruitment costs paid by the workers. It’s unclear how much each company is contributing…

…[Daikin] told AP it was working with human rights groups to resolve any remaining issues...

Panasonic said it was “proportionally reimbursing the recruitment fees” paid by workers and had asked Kawaguchi to correct labor violations…

Sony told AP its code of conduct prohibits abusive labor practices in its supply chain…