Hyundai gets bad press again!!

[ZZman]

What the heck is going on with Hyundai? Vehicle issues, plant issues, P.R nightmare.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...dai-in-alabama-labor-department-says-94c2932d

 

[Tdbo]

It just keeps rolling. Who heads their PR department, Elmer J. Fudd?

 

[TumblrDucks]

The hidden price of cheap goods

 

[Vercingetorix]

Smart Alabama?

 

[Triple_Se7en]

More like bad personnel management, versus-that of bad press.
Real, investigative Journalism has been Dead for almost two decades.

If Paul Harvey were alive today, his famous slogan would be.....
......"Now You know one-half of the story"

 

[Dave Hess]

What did the UAW say about this ?

 

[fdcg27]

I must be naive in thinking that this can't be happening in our country today while we rail about China's and others use of forced and child labor.
My concern is that this is but the tip of the iceberg.
I do find Hyundai's attempts to deny responsibility to be disingenuous at best.

 

[FowVay]

Reading articles written in the Luverne Journal, the problem seems to have originated when Smart LLC, the company that actually makes the car parts for Hyundai, employed the use of a local staffing agency named "Best Practices Solutions". Best Practices Solutions is the party responsible for hiring the underaged employees.

Smart LLC. ended their business relations with the staffing agency when they learned of the inappropriate practices. This investigation had been going on for quite some time and actually dates back to 2022.

It's common practice for these large companies to utilize staffing agencies for hiring their employees. If you want to work for BMW in Greenville, SC., you have to go through the SC department of labor to get a job there.

My question is how on earth do you hire a 13 year old kid when the requirement exists that you provide identification and proof of your legal status to work in this country. Somethings seriously wrong with our policies and procedures these days.

 

[fdcg27]

My question is how on earth do you hire a 13 year old kid when the requirement exists that you provide identification and proof of your legal status to work in this country. Somethings seriously wrong with our policies and procedures these days.

I guess a staffing agency could just forget all that paperwork nonsense as they apparently did.
Policies and procedures are only useful when followed.

 

[John105]

It just keeps rolling. Who heads their PR department, Elmer J. Fudd?

What’s the J stand for, never knew…

 

[The Lube Guy]

Every single car manufacturer does bad things, no matter who they are.

 

[fdcg27]

Every single manufacturer does bad things, no matter who they are.

Plenty of wrongdoing across the board.
All we can do is punish those exposed through legal process and with our wallets, although there are many reasons to avoid Hyundai/KIA products other than this.

 

[4wd]

Often wondered where all these parts wound up:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-22011178

 

[AZjeff]

13 replies and nobody wonders where the parents are in this? ?

Was anyone else working when they were 13? I was but of course not 60 hours a week. After school, weekends and summers in a small custom meat processing business working with equipment that would get the owners fined today for sure.

Wonder where the line is drawn between teaching kids the value of working and child abuse?

 

[4wd]

13 replies and nobody wonders where the parents are in this? ?

Was anyone else working when they were 13? I was but of course not 60 hours a week. After school, weekends and summers in a small custom meat processing business working with equipment that would get the owners fined today for sure.

Wonder where the line is drawn between teaching kids the value of working and child abuse?

My parents knew where I was working at 13 …
(washing telephone/electric company trucks) …
At 14 - added changing oil too …

 

[alarmguy]

What the heck is going on with Hyundai? Vehicle issues, plant issues, P.R nightmare.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...dai-in-alabama-labor-department-says-94c2932d

At first glance I thought this story was about a 13 year old working 60 hours a week for Hyundai but it's not, she worked for a third party parts supplier.

 

[JustN89]

At first glance I thought this story was about a 13 year old working 60 hours a week for Hyundai but it's not, she worked for a third party parts supplier.

The third party supplier doesn't generate clicks. The name of the supplier has been posted twice and I've read it twice, yet without scrolling back up and looking, I couldn't tell you what the name of the supplier was. Everyone knows who Hyundai is, however.

Sadly, this is what modern day "journalism" has become. Clicks and views (see also: revenue) can't be taken back, so who cares if you're wrong or misleading in your story?

 

[hrv]

At first glance I thought this story was about a 13 year old working 60 hours a week for Hyundai but it's not, she worked for a third party parts supplier.

Like Paul Harvey used to say.....Now you know the rest of the story....

 

[4wd]

Like Paul Harvey used to say.....Now you know the rest of the story....

Good day …

 

[alarmguy]

The third party supplier doesn't generate clicks. The name of the supplier has been posted twice and I've read it twice, yet without scrolling back up and looking, I couldn't tell you what the name of the supplier was. Everyone knows who Hyundai is, however.

Sadly, this is what modern day "journalism" has become. Clicks and views (see also: revenue) can't be taken back, so who cares if you're wrong or misleading in your story?

We as a nation, as a world are controlled by the media. I should say the masses are controlled by them. It's already happening and already here right down to the voting booth.
Technology can even teach the public to favor different colors and products. Real journalism exists in those who think like us but in the media those sites are buried by the big guys, to almost the extent that the real journalist sites people associate to the likes of the National Enquirer which in reality now a days might be closer to the truth.