Walt Disney Company intends to investigate reports by a labor rights advocacy group of unsafe conditions at Chinese factories that make books for the company. The National Labor Committee said the factories forced employees to work 10- to 13-hour work days in unsafe conditions and paid them below the legal minimum wage; if they refused to work overtime, their pay would be withheld or deducted, the study found.
See "Disney to Probe Labor Claims in Factories", Reuters, The New York Times, August 18, 2005