Note sull'episodio
In December of 2018, Malaysia’s rubber glove industry, the biggest in the world, woke up to a rude shock.
Global media had begun reporting a series of accusations about the industry’s labour rights practices, including issues of forced labour, unsafe working conditions, confiscation of worker passports, illegal withholding of wages and “mental torture”.
The reports kicked off a series of events that rumbled on for more than three years, and brought major repercussions for the industry’s biggest global players.
The issue of labour rights has been a global concern for decades, but the story of Top Glove, Kossan, Hartalega, and Supermax brought into sharp focus how worker rights issues are now a major business risk for Asian companies.
In the space of a few days the Malaysian Big 4 were singled out by