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MGMT1001 Communication in Business
Trimester 2A, 2015
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Student Name: Hui Xia
Student ID: 17683498
Student’s Email Address: hui.xia1@student.curtin.edu.au
Tutor’s Name: Sunaina Gowan
Tutorial Day and Time: Monday, 2:00pm
Name of Company: Samsung Electronics

Campus Details: Sydney

(Word Count: 1606)

Samsung Electronics
Samsung Group was founded by Byung-Chull Lee in the 1930s as a fruit and sundry-goods export company (Samsung Electronics history 2014). Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a chief affiliate of South Korea’s giant Samsung Group, the largest chaebols South Korea and one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronic devices …show more content…
1 maker of Smartphone said (BBC 2014). Samsung added it had inspected Shinyang on three separate occasions between 2013 and 25 June 2014, but did not find any indications that minor age children worked at the company (BBC 2014). The company said it will permanently terminate business with Shinyang if the unlawful act is officially confirmed; adding Chinese authorities are also looking into the case (BBC 2014). Then the CLW said Shinyang hired underage students, who usually work for a period of three to six months, mostly during peak production seasons and the youngsters worked for 11 hours per day with no overtime payment, and the Chinese company did not buy insurance for them (BBC 2014). "These young workers usually leave the factory as it enters the off-season, and the factory does not need to provide any sort of severance pay," the CLW's statement said. The activist group said it has confirmed at least five children under the age of 16 worked at the factory (BBC 2014). "Samsung's social responsibility reports are just advertisements as well as Samsung has put its energy into audits and the production of these reports, but these things are meant to appease investors and do not have any real value for workers," Li Qiang, executive director of CLW, had said in the statement (BBC 2014). In this case, …show more content…
Samsung Electronics. 2014. Sustainability report. www.samsung.com/au/aboutsamsungfile/2014_Sustainability_Report.pdf 6. Samsung Electronics. 2014. Annual report. www.samsung.com/common/aboutsamsung/download/companyreports/2014_Environmental_Report.pdf 7. Mohammad M.R., Rasheda K. 2012. Child Labour: The Effects of Globalization. http://search.proquest.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/docview/1284532200/fulltextPDF/930A463FC6584974PQ/4?accountid=10382 8. Rahman, M.M., Khanam, R. and Absar, N.U. 1999. Child labor in Bangladesh: a critical appraisal of the Harkin bill and the MOU type schooling program, The Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XXXIII, No.4, 985 -1003, December.
9. Arat, Z.F. 2002. Analyzing child labour as a human rights issue: its causes, aggravating policies, and alternative proposals, Human Rights Quarterly, 24, 177-204.
10. Newmayer, E. and De Soysa, I. 2005. Trade openness, foreign direct investment and child labour, World Development, Vol. 33, No. 1, 43 – 63.
11. BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific. 2014. Samsung suspends business with Chinese firm accused of using child labour.

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