{"id":3887,"date":"2018-11-01T18:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/samsung-agrees-to-payouts-after-worker-deaths\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:50:40","slug":"samsung-agrees-to-payouts-after-worker-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/samsung-agrees-to-payouts-after-worker-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung agrees to payouts after worker deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The death of a 23-year-old former Samsung worker has led to the company agreeing a major compensation deal.<\/p>\n

Hwang Yumi died en route to hospital in 2007 after developing leukaemia.<\/p>\n

Her father led a campaign to shame the company into making payouts for other cases of the disease, miscarriages and other ailments linked to chemicals used at its South Korean factories.<\/p>\n

Those affected – and workers’ children with related ailments – will receive up to 150m won (\u00a3102,907) per illness.<\/p>\n

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Hwang Sang-ki – a taxi driver – set up the Supporters for the Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (Sharps) with the help of local labour activists in November 2007.<\/p>\n

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It organised sit-in protests at various Samsung sites to pressure the company into the deal. <\/p>\n

It alleged there was a link between the working conditions Samsung maintained and diseases, which also included brain tumours and multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n

“It is truly deplorable that the issues of workers having fallen ill and died from on-the-job chemical exposure remained unsolved for more than 10 long years,” said Hawang Sang-ki in July<\/a>, when the technology company first said it would abide by terms that were subsequently drawn up by a third-party mediator.<\/p>\n

As of June 2018, Sharps said, it had identified 319 other victims, 117 of whom had died.<\/p>\n

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The settlement takes into account that it is not always clear how each person came to become ill, according to a report from the Yonhap news agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We would like to thank the mediation committee for the efforts that went into this mediation proposal,” the tech firm told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Samsung Electronics stands by the promise to unconditionally accept the suggested solutions and will work quickly on detailed plans for execution.” <\/p>\n

The deal extends to both workers directly employed by Samsung as well as those who were hired via sub-contractors.<\/p>\n

Sums will be determined by the illnesses involved and length of time the person worked at the company’s plants.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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