Korea’s top automaker Hyundai is investigating child labor violations in its US supply chain and plans to cut ties with suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, it has been revealed.
Hyundai’s global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters the carmaker intends to ‘sever relations’ with the two Alabama supplier plants under scrutiny for using underage labor ‘as soon as possible’.
Alabama’s state Department of Labor and federal agencies have been investigating the use of child workers at SMART Alabama and the Korean-operated SL Alabama, which supply Hyundai’s massive vehicle assembly plant in Montgomery, Alabama.
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