unfortunately this ties up with what Jestine Yong told me a few years ago about younger Malaysians not being as deeply interested in electronics as our generation, and replacing stuff rather than repairing it; I’d also noticed that people there are not under as strict control from parents/society as they used to be…
Add that to ruthless competition amongst Asian countries for manufacturing contracts; the same tension about immigrants that exists in Europe and this bad stuff happens..
Conditions of forced labor exist in Malaysia’s electronics industry. For the past ten years, Verité has seen and documented a distressing trend – migrant workers in Malaysia electronics factories recounting disturbingly similar stories of recruitment into the sector under conditions of deception, debt bondage, harrassment and abuse, and other situations that can lead to forced labor. Our new White Paper demonstrates how to eliminate the risks.
The PDF is also attached….
