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Article

8 Mar 2007

Author:
Monica Hsueh, Ethical Corporation

Asia-Pacific: Unsteady Taiwanese steps, often in the wrong direction

The concepts of corporate responsibility are still relative novelties in Taiwan, with companies typically ...ignoring stakeholders altogether...In June 2006,...Mail on Sunday claimed that Foxconn, a Taiwanese company, had forced staff to work 12 hours a day on the production line at an iPod factory in Shenzen...Pollution of soil, water and air has occurred in three major science parks in Taiwan...occupied by private companies...[,] many...major manufacturers of semiconductors, bio-chemicals and other high-technology products...[I]n 2005...14 Thai migrant workers vandalised their dormitories, protesting at mistreatment by their employer, Hua Pan, a contract company for the Kaohsiung city subway construction...Taiwanese workers are entitled to form trade unions...However, according to Cool Loud’s analysis: “There are no trade unions in the technology sector, but the technology companies still received high marks...in the Great Vision Magazine CSR awards.”