A new report from a Chinese workers' rights group found that workers producing Olympic merchandise were forced to work overtime, had to provide their own safety equipment, were paid little as six euros a day, and were fined for infractions. The report found that workers worked 120 hours of overtime a month, despite laws limiting overtime to 36 hours a month. The report pointed to provisions in the brand for whom the goods were being produced, Locog, as inadequate. The company said that their audits of the factories did not find the same violations.
See "Olympic mascots made for Locog in Chinese 'sweatshop' factories-report", Simon Neville, Guardian Unlimited (UK), July 23, 2012