Special Report-How a fake ID repeatedly enabled Hyundai suppliers to employ child labor in Alabama


  • World
  • Friday, 28 Apr 2023

A view of the Hyundai Glovis logistics company in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., April 25, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (Reuters) - On Nov 22, a team of state and federal labor officials conducted a surprise inspection and noticed a young-looking worker at a warehouse operated here by the logistics unit of Korean automaking giant Hyundai Motor Group.

The inspectors, according to an Alabama Department of Labor field report reviewed by Reuters, had received a complaint from an unspecified tipster about "under-age children working" at the facility. During their visit to Hyundai Glovis Co Ltd, the report notes, the boy "was manually restacking large metal castings."

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