Tesco

ILO violation 138,29,87,98 : Cards, gift boxes and paper goods sold by Tesco are manufactured in China by Yiuwah Stationery in Dongguan. Yiuwah illegaly hires workers below 15, some are hired at the age of 13 years-old. Yiuwah often fails to provide a labor contract to its workers and overtime is mandatory. In June 2009, one worker was crushed by the machine she was working on. Official labour inspectors found widespread labor and safety violations at the plant.: China

ILO violation 87 : Since workers organised a union at Tesco Lotus in Wang Noi district, Ayuthuya province, in 2004, management at the hypermarket refused to bargain a collective agreement. It used blatant discriminatory practices – such as different, higher pay-rates for "diligence bonuses" for non-union members – to encourage workers to stay away from the union. During 2006, the union effort expanded beyond Ayuthuya as workers organised at a Tesco in Samut Prakan. But in both cases, Tesco workers’ efforts to engage in collective bargaining continued to be obstructed by management’s intransigence. MOL local and national levels sought to conciliate the two sides with little success. Often the representatives of the employer either didn’t appear, or maintained that there was nothing to talk about since the collective bargaining demands had been put forward in an erroneous manner and therefore were invalid. Meanwhile, Tesco management continued its efforts to discourage union membership, and ultimately undermine the union because it recognised that workers in many other Tesco stores were closely following the dispute and would likely unionise if the workers won a contract in either Ayuthuya or Samut Prakan.: Thailand

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ILO violation 138 : illegal child labour: United Kingdom