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USA: Hyundai sued for utilizing kid labour astatine its supplier's mill successful Alabama
According to media reports, the US Labor Department has sued South Korean carmaker Hyundai for employing children successful its manufacturing installation successful Luverne, Alabama.
The Smart Alabama mill produces assemblage panels earlier supplying them to Hyundai's mill successful Montgomery. In addition, the suit besides claimed that a staffing agency, named 'Best Practice Service', recruited children to enactment astatine the supplier's plant.
The reports adjacent notation a 13-year-old miss who is said to person worked 60 hours per week, making car parts astatine the Alabama factory. The 13-year-old is said to person been recruited by the aforementioned staffing agency. She worked successful the Alabama mill betwixt July 2021 and February 2022. The suit besides contended that 2 different children were besides employed successful the aforesaid plant.
Seema Nanda, Chief Legal Officer astatine the US Labor Department, released a connection which read, "Companies cannot flight liability by blaming suppliers oregon staffing companies for kid labour violations erstwhile they are successful information besides employers themselves."
Hyundai has besides released a connection which mentioned that kid labour was "not accordant with the standards and values we clasp ourselves to arsenic a company.” The connection further stated that the labour section "used an unprecedented ineligible mentation that would unfairly clasp Hyundai accountable for the actions of its suppliers.”
Source: NYTimes
