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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Dyson to respond to the allegation in the media report. The company did not respond.
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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Dyson to respond to the allegation in the media report. The company did not respond.
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The legal claims are being brought by 23 migrant workers and the estate of one deceased migrant worker who worked at an ATA Industrial factory in Johor where many Dyson products were made. Their claims against Dyson relate to allegations of forced labour, false imprisonment, assault, battery, cruel and degrading treatment and exposure to extremely hazardous working conditions.
"A group of 24 people have issued legal claims in the High Court in London against several Dyson companies alleging that they experienced forced labour and abusive working conditions when working in two factories, owned by the ATA Industrial group, producing Dyson products in Johor, Malaysia."
The judge found that while Dyson was named and pictured in the programme, the entrepreneur was not defamed. Accordingly, his claim was dismissed.
Inventor James Dyson has sued Channel 4 following a report which suggested that Dyson's company was complicit in the abuse of supply chain workers in Malaysia.