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Samsung is deploying a new set of ploys to circumvent even the basic legal and fiduciary obligations to provide for worker safety and corporate governance. Samsung found itself facing a barrage o...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/samsungs-recent-moves-highlight-inability-to-clean-its-house-of-malfeasance/

  South Korea’s legislature all but unanimously approved a controversial amendment to an industrial information law allowing corporations to arbitrarily conceal any information that can be use...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/11/21/south-korea-revises-trade-secret-law-to-curb-workers-compensation/

A victim of occupational disease contracted while at Samsung has won her workers compensation after ten years of efforts to get through a legal thicket often rigged in favor of corporate interest...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/06/06/a-samsung-cluster-victim-wins-workers-comp-after-10-years-of-campaigning/

Workers fell sick and died due to exposure to hazardous chemicals in their chip labs, Korea Workers Compensation & Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) concluded on May 22, after reviewing ten years of epid...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/05/23/s-korean-govt-admits-relatedness-of-fatalities-and-illnesses-in-semiconductor-industry/

Lee Jong-ran (right), labor attorney with SHARPS, helps Hwang Sang-ki (left), a SHARPS founder, put on a clean suit ahead of a rally against Samsung in 2016. Samsung listed Lee and Hwang as “pe...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/samsung-has-put-sharps-activists-under-surveillance-court-records-reveal/

A young female worker has died due to the cumulative effects of her on-the-job chemical exposure, amid threats by her employer seeking to invalidate her workers compensation. On April 8, 2019, Le...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/young-woman-worker-dies-amid-employers-attempt-to-invalidate-her-workers-compensation/

A majority of more than 200 new occupational-disease cases from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and its affiliates are not covered by the compensation program that the conglomerate launched last ye...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/more-than-100-occupational-disease-victims-of-samsung-likely-remain-uncompensated/

  A young researcher has died of leukemia only three years after he began work at Samsung SDI Co. Ltd, the conglomerate’s electronic materials unit. The otherwise healthy 31-year-old researche...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/young-samsung-sdi-researcher-dies-of-leukemia-after-3-years-of-on-the-job-chemical-exposure/

    On Nov. 23, 2018 SHARPS finally extracted from Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a meaningful apology for the deaths and illnesses caused by its unsafe working condition and an initiative to co...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/finally-samsung-apologizes-to-victims-of-its-illness-cluster/

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. should compensate workers falling ill at its LCD and chip plants from 1984 onward, the Mediation Committee said on Nov. 1, 2018 in its final arbitration decision.  ...

https://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/samsung-to-compensate-infirm-workers-from-1984-onward-arbitration-proposal-demands/