KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — US government investigators have interviewed workers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co’s Malaysian factory about their working conditions, employees told Reuters, intensifying scrutiny of potential labour abuses by the tyre maker in the country.
In video calls over the past 11 months or more, the agents from the main criminal-investigation unit of the Department of Homeland Security also requested documents relating to their employment, said the workers, who asked not to be identified because they feared reprisals.HSI said it does not comment on ongoing investigations.
In 2020 and in June, the court ordered Goodyear to pay back wages to some workers and comply with the agreement. The company has appealed the verdicts. Malaysia’s largest fund manager, Permodalan Nasional Berhad, which owns 49 per cent of Goodyear Malaysia, did not respond to requests for comment.Representatives from the Malaysian government’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Council were also on some of the video calls with HSI, the five workers said.
HSI can initiate criminal investigations and coordinate potential criminal prosecutions of American firms and U.S-bound supply chains whose goods are made by means of forced labour, according to its website.
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