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FMT 8th Mar 2025: Workers at glove mould-making plant in Malaysia, supplying leading domestic and international gloves companies, not paid for 3 months, claims activist (another alleged Malaysian modern slavery related case)
FMT 8th Mar 2025: Workers at glove mould-making plant in Malaysia, supplying leading domestic and international gloves companies, not paid
FMT 23rd Feb 2025: Two-thirds of Malaysia’s ex-Kawaguchi company employees have found new jobs but remain in situation of acute modern slavery, activist reveals
FMT 23rd Feb 2025: Two-thirds of Malaysia’s ex-Kawaguchi company employees have found new jobs but remain in situation of acute
FMT 7th Jan 2025: Kawaguchi foreign workers in Malaysia preparing to sue 2 prominent Japanese companies, Sony and Panasonic, in U.S. courts
FMT 7th Jan 2025: Kawaguchi foreign workers in Malaysia preparing to sue 2 prominent Japanese companies, Sony and Panasonic, in
31st Dec 2024: FMT – Kawaguchi workers ‘forced’ to relocate, claims activist (Sony, Panasonic and Daikin Malaysian supplier case)
31st Dec 2024: FMT – Kawaguchi workers ‘forced’ to relocate, claims activist (Sony, Panasonic and Daikin Malaysian supplier case) PETALING
26th December 2024: FMT – Penniless and unemployed, Kawaguchi’s foreign workers in Malaysia hoping to secure jobs before Ramadan (Sony, Panasonic & Daikin supplier case)
26th December 2024: FMT – Penniless and unemployed, Kawaguchi’s foreign workers in Malaysia hoping to secure jobs before Ramadan (Sony,
20th December 2024: FMT – Air-con giant Daikin comes to rescue of unpaid modern slavery victims and foreign Kawaguchi workers (Kawaguchi supplies Sony, Panasonic and Daikin – Daikin smallest buyer)
20th December 2024: FMT – Air-con giant Daikin comes to rescue of unpaid modern slavery victims and foreign Kawaguchi workers
20th December 2024: “Seven months of unpaid wages: ‘When will I be free?'” Malaysia: Report on Kawaguchi (Sony, Panasonic, Daikin and Hisense/Sanden supplier) released by PARC
20th December 2024: “Seven months of unpaid wages: ‘When will I be free?’” Malaysia: Report on Kawaguchi (Sony, Panasonic, Daikin
19th December 2024: Malaysian Labour Dept to assist Kawaguchi workers securing new jobs, firm agrees to settle over RM3 million backdated pay in agreement described as ‘offensive,’ global buyers Sony, Panasonic and Daikin remain silent
19th December 2024 Malay Mail: Malaysian Labour Dept to assist Kawaguchi workers securing new jobs, firm agrees to settle over
18th Dec 2024: FMT – Kawaguchi to pay foreign workers’ owed salary in Malaysia after negotiations – Major Japanese conglomerates Sony, Panasonic and Daikin remain silent after unethical cut and run
18th Dec 2024: FMT – Kawaguchi to pay foreign workers’ owed salary in Malaysia after negotiations – Major Japanese conglomerates
18th Dec 2024: Malaysiakini – Almost 300 Kawaguchi Bangladeshi workers left jobless when Sony, Panasonic and Daikin cut and run from modern slavery abuses in Malaysian factory to enrol in employer exchange programme
18th Dec 2024: Malaysiakini – Almost 300 Kawaguchi Bangladeshi workers left jobless when Sony, Panasonic and Daikin cut and run
17th Dec 2024: FMT Malaysian Labour dept promises justice for Kawaguchi Manufacturing modern slavery victims from Bangladesh on strike, key customers were Sony, Panasonic and Daikin
17th Dec 2024: FMT Malaysian Labour dept promises justice for Kawaguchi Manufacturing modern slavery victims from Bangladesh on strike, Kawaguchi
15th Dec 2024: FMT – Ex-MP calls for ministry action after salary protest at Malaysia’s Kawaguchi plastics company supplying Japanese conglomerates Sony, Panasonic and Daikin
15th Dec 2024: FMT – Ex-MP calls for ministry action after salary protest at Malaysia’s Kawaguchi plastics company supplying Japanese
Why Human Rights Matter to Business?
Risky Business with Darian McBain: Asia
15th January 2024
Why Human Rights Matter to Business with Darian McBain – Interview with Andy Hall – Migrant Worker Rights Specialist
Asian business is changing. Customer demands, government regulations, stakeholder expectations, they are all evolving under the pressure of the environmental crisis. And even the most robust business models are starting to show cracks. But it’s through those cracks that opportunities arrive.
Do you know how to navigate this new normal?
Andy Hall is a human rights defender, a researcher/investigator and activist, and an independent specialist on migrant worker rights.
In this episode of Risky Business, Andy talks about how he uncovered – and helped to tackle – the problem of labour rights abuses in Malaysia’s latex glove industry.
Click HERE to listen
It’s nice to have a chance to watch opera and listen to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra after long days of meetings in Berlin. A successful mission….
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OECD COMPLAINT FILED
Employees of Kawaguchi Manufacturing vs. Kawaguchi Manufacturing, Sony and Panasonic
Labour rights violations at supplier to Sony and Panasonic
https://www.oecdwatch.org/complaint/employees-of-kawaguchi-manufacturing-vs-kawaguchi-manufacturing-sony-and-panasonic/
Date filed
27 December 2024
ABC Instagram: Over 200 migrants at plastics factory in Malaysia that supplies to Sony/Panasonic haven't been paid for 6mnths. Forced overtime, withheld passports, dirty living conditions other abuses raised to the Japanese electronics giants see https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD6WXQjJxj5/?igsh=amVwdDFmOTU4NWk5
*FMT 7th Jan 2025: Kawaguchi foreign workers in Malaysia preparing to sue 2 prominent Japanese companies, Sony and Panasonic, in U.S. courts*
*FMT 7th Jan 2025: Kawaguchi foreign workers in Malaysia preparing to sue 2 prominent Japanese companies, Sony and Panasonic, in U.S. courts*
Andy Hall
Andy Hall is a British human rights defender and a migrant worker specialist working in Asia, Middle East and the Gulf
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