Samsung announced...that it was ending a business agreement with a foreign company a month after several allegations of abusive conditions for migrant workers were released...

Some of the worker complaints of the company included illegal seizure of passports, misleading salary amount, exacting exorbitant agency fees to retain employment, and poor treatment like long periods of forced standing without rest or bathroom breaks...

“Samsung Electronics conducted an on-site investigation of these companies we work with in Malaysia and the migrant workers hired by these companies,” the corporation said in an official blog post. “Based on this investigation, we identified one of our labor supply companies to be in violation of the hiring process of migrant workers, and as consequence, we terminated our contract with this company.”

The tech company is introducing new guidelines to help address these issues, in which “the intent of the guidelines is to eradicate any existing or potential of forced or coercive labor, slave labor or human trafficking of migrant workers either at Samsung or among any of our suppliers.”...