Disney probes alleged labour abuses at Chinese plants

Walt Disney today said it had hired an auditor to investigate claims its Chinese contractors paid workers below the minimum wage, demanded excessive overtime and cheated labour monitors by faking pay slips.

Disney said it had asked the non-profit firm Verite to probe allegations by the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, a new group aimed at protecting Chinese workers’ rights, in it’s report titled Recovering Mickey’s Conscience – an apparent reference to Disney’s most famous cartoon character, Mickey Mouse.