More than 160 workers have been rescued, according to local prosecutors.
  • normal_user [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Just to make things more clear for people, this is about subcontractors, employed by what looks to be a local building company that is making a new factory for BYD EVs.

    I think the article’s title really makes it look like BYD is the one withholding passports and wages, but actually they are not and inside the article they say BYD has already asked the subcontractor to improve working conditions before it became news, but they didn’t comply.

    The article doesn’t specify how much BYD’s executives knew or if they had the ability to change things by their own choise.

    • graymess [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I think it’s BYD’s responsibility to know such things. This feels like the argument Hershey’s made when they got caught using slave labor to source their cacao.