Labor Violations

Roadget Business Pte. Ltd.

SHEIN products were linked to cotton sourced from China's Xinjiang region, where forced labor of Uyghur minorities has been documented.

Roadget Business Pte. Ltd.

A 2022 Channel 4 undercover investigation found SHEIN suppliers paying workers as little as 3 cents per garment, with 18-hour workdays.

Mars, Incorporated

Mars's cocoa supply chain was identified by the U.S. DOL ILAB as sourcing cocoa produced with child labor in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Nestlé S.A.

Nestlé was named in a U.S. DOL Bureau of International Labor Affairs report identifying cocoa from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana as produced with child labor and forced labor.

Mondelez International, Inc.

Mondelēz's cocoa supply chain was identified by the DOL ILAB as involving child labor in West African cocoa production, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Amazon.com, Inc.

OSHA investigations documented high injury rates at Amazon warehouses — nearly double the industry average — with workers reporting pressure to meet demanding quotas.

The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company was identified in DOL reports as sourcing cocoa linked to child labor in West Africa.

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel's Jennie-O turkey processing plants faced COVID-19 outbreaks that killed workers. Minnesota OSHA fined Jennie-O for failing to protect workers from the virus.

Tyson Foods, Inc.

Tyson Foods faced lawsuits after COVID-19 outbreaks in its meatpacking plants killed at least 27 workers. Managers allegedly placed bets on how many workers would get infected.

Apple Inc.

Apple acknowledged in its 2020 Supplier Responsibility Report that audits found underage workers and excessive working hours at supplier facilities.

Apple Inc.

Apple supplier Foxconn's Shenzhen factory saw a cluster of worker suicides in 2010, with at least 14 workers jumping from buildings, prompting investigations into working conditions.

L Brands, Inc.

Victoria's Secret supplier was linked to forced labor of Uyghur workers transferred from Xinjiang under Chinese government labor programs.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics was found to have violated South Korean labor laws, with workers exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. A 2018 mediation resulted in Samsung apologizing and compensating affected workers.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Amnesty International documented that cobalt mined by children as young as 7 in the DRC was entering Samsung's battery supply chain.

McDonald's Corporation

McDonald's faced nationwide Fight for $15 strikes. The NLRB ruled McDonald's was a joint employer of franchise workers in 2015.

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB

H&M sourced from the Rana Plaza building complex in Bangladesh, which collapsed in 2013 killing 1,134 garment workers.

Primark

Primark sourced garments from the Rana Plaza factory complex in Bangladesh, which collapsed killing 1,134 workers.

Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A.

Brazilian labor authorities found workers in São Paulo producing Zara garments in conditions analogous to slave labor. Inditex was fined.

Dole plc

Dole Food Company faced lawsuits from thousands of banana plantation workers in Central America who were sterilized or sickened by the pesticide DBCP (Nemagon) applied to Dole plantations in the 1970s.

Gap, Inc.

Gap was found to have child labor in its supply chain after a 2007 Observer investigation revealed children as young as 10 embroidering Gap garments in New Delhi.

Nike, Inc.

Nike faced widespread criticism for sweatshop labor conditions in Southeast Asian supplier factories, including below-minimum-wage pay and child labor, documented in a leaked 1997 Ernst & Young audit.