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(This Oct. 1 story has been corrected to say that Gjovik sued Apple last year, not in May, in paragraph 9) By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. labor board issued a complaint accusing Apple of ...
The plaintiffs accused the five companies of joining suppliers in a "forced labor" venture by purchasing cobalt, which is used to make lithium-ion batteries that are widely used in electronics.
Apple Inc. has been the subject of criticism and legal action. This includes its handling labor violations at its outsourced manufacturing hubs in China, its environmental impact of its supply chains, tax and monopoly practices, a lack of diversity and women in leadership in corporate and retail, various labor conditions (mishandling sexual misconduct complaints), and its response to worker ...
International Rights Advocates, Inc. filed an injunctive relief and damages class-action lawsuit against Apple, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla in December 2019. [1] The plaintiff was representing fourteen Congolese parents and children seeking relief and damage fees for these companies aiding and abetting the use of young children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cobalt mining industry. [2]
The National Labor Relations Board last week accused Apple of trying to prevent employees from discussing pay equity and pressuring an engineer who attempted to circulate a survey about wages to quit.
[21] [22] [23] The NLRB's charge accused Apple of "interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of" federal labor laws by requiring they sign unlawful employment agreements, that included confidentiality, non-compete, and non-disclosure clauses, and for enforcing overly broad rules about misconduct and social media ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. National Labor Relations board accused Apple of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate for better working conditions by restricting their use of social media ...
Janneke Parrish (born 1990 or 1991) is an American program manager and workers' rights activist living in the Netherlands known for being a leader of the #AppleToo movement. . Parrish was fired in 2021 for interfering with an investigation into a leak; in 2024, the National Labor Relations Board charged Apple with illegally firing Parrish for her advoc