><i>"Around the end of May, employees at Samsung Display in Vietnam’s industrial Bac Ninh province were given a similar choice: Stay home without shifts, or move into a company-designated space and keep those jobs — with a little extra pay, according to some workers, as an added sweetener."</i><p>Tech companies did the same thing in Taiwan -- which is remarkable because, unlike communist Vietnam, that's a free democracy. I'm baffled that there was little coverage about this (and of pandemic-excused human rights violations generally).<p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4269650e-7660-4b80-b294-f81b4368784c" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/content/4269650e-7660-4b80-b294-f81b43687...</a> (<i>"Tech groups in Taiwan accused of locking up migrant workers"</i>)<p><a href="https://archive.is/5JdZW" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/5JdZW</a><p>><i>"Electronics groups including Japan’s Canon and Innolux, an affiliate of Apple supplier Foxconn, have been accused of locking up migrant workers in Taiwan as an outbreak of Covid-19 hits the country’s tech industry."</i><p>>[...] <i>"According to internal documents and staff communications seen by the Financial Times, the companies, which also include Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) — a unit of the world’s largest chip packaging and testing house ASE — have forbidden migrant workers from leaving the dormitories where they live except to go to work."</i><p>>[...] <i>"“It has now become extremely common for employers to lock their migrant workers up,” said Lennon Wong, an activist at the Serve the People Association. A survey by the labour rights group found that 60 per cent of migrant workers are forbidden from going out in their free time, double the percentage before Taiwan recorded its first significant community outbreak in mid-May."</i><p>>[...] <i>"“Discrimination of migrant workers in Taiwan is systemic, but the pandemic has made it a lot worse,” Wong said."</i>