In February 2009, National Labor Committee issued a report "High Tech Misery in China", alleging labour abuses at Mae Tay Plastics & Electronics factory in China.  The factory reportedly supplies computer equipment to HP, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and IBM. 

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited the companies to respond.  Their responses are available below: 

• Dell - response [PDF]
• HP - response [PDF]
• IBM - response [DOC]
• Lenovo - response [PDF]
• Mae Tay - response [PDF]
• Microsoft - response [DOC]

Press article on the issue, including NLC’s reaction to the launch of a factory audit by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC): “Tech coalition launches sweatshop probe”, Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK, 16 Feb 2009