Child Labor Reportedly Used At Two More Hyundai Suppliers In Alabama | Carscoops carscoops
and those under of 18 are prevented from working in hazardous areas, such as near metal presses and cutting machines. Despite that, employees have said that children 16-years of age and younger were welding, driving forklifts, and performing other tasks in the Alabama factories of Hyundai’s suppliers.Both Hyundai and Kia have posted policies prohibiting the use of child labor at their plants and their suppliers’ plants.
In the case of these factories, basic questions like who owns the staffing agencies that were used to find underage workers are hard to answer. As part of this investigation, Reuters reached out to an agency called JSS that was linked to the employment of a 14-year-old girl, who was barely four feet tall when she allegedly worked for Hwasin.
As authorities investigate, employees at a variety of Hyundai and Kia suppliers claim that they have worked alongside minors and that superiors at the plants showed little interest in addressing the issue. All the suppliers contacted by Reuters, though, did say that they would cooperate with investigators.
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