Hundreds of people are making stuffed Walt Disney toys at a factory in southern China up to 16 hours a day with only a few days off a month, a Hong Kong-based labor activist group said Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
“During the peak season, before Christmas, workers at the factory start at 8 a.m. and don’t finish until midnight,” said Jenny Chan, an activist with the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior.
Chan said the Tianyu Toys factory in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan regularly holds back workers’ wages for up to 45 days, and paid overtime of 40 cents an hour, less than half the rate set by Chinese labor laws.
She said this prompted a mass strike in September, but that management had only increased overtime pay to 47 cents an hour.
