Hyundai gets bad press again!!

[ZZman]

Representatives for Smart Alabama, which until last year was a subsidiary of Hyundai, and for Best Practice Service, couldn’t immediately be reached.

 

[4WD]

so who cares if you're wrong or misleading in your story?

Sounds familiar …

 

[D60]

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.

Anytime a company feels it has to call itself something like Best Practices I'm immediately skeptical.

I know of this guy....he always exclaims "NOT A JOKE!" But he's always a joke....

Same principle

 

[pbm]

I’m not defending H/K in any way but there are certainly others at fault here including the parents of the 13 year old. They should be charged for endangering the welfare of the child. ‘Best Practice’s’ should get a very substantial fine as well.
To be consistent I also believe parents should have a big say in life changing decisions made by their underage children such as transitioning to the opposite gender. My state (NY) is trying to take the parents out of the equation on that issue.

 

[AZjeff]

You had to go to a forbidden topic now the thread will be locked.

 

[THORROMIG]

Crazy thing is, people keep buying them. I see new or newer ones all the time in my parts.

 

[CKN]

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?

Sadly -many are so bent on "Hyundai Hate" on this forum they will post any piece of garbage.....as long as GM and others are manufacturing in China there are plenty of double standards.

 

[02SE]

I just want to know how much the 13 year old was making? I was an apprentice in a car repair shop at 13.

 

[The Lube Guy]

I’m not defending H/K in any way but there are certainly others at fault here including the parents of the 13 year old. They should be charged for endangering the welfare of the child. ‘Best Practice’s’ should get a very substantial fine as well.
To be consistent I also believe parents should have a big say in life changing decisions made by their underage children such as transitioning to the opposite gender. My state (NY) is trying to take the parents out of the equation on that issue.

Except that you don't know the socioeconomic situation of the family that the child belongs to. Working is better than being out on the streets, doing bad things, like joining a gang for example.

 

[Pablo]

I quit reading Marketwatch and deleted the bookmark several years ago when they went from a biz site to clickbait site.

BUT I came here to bring up the parents as the #1 culprit, or bad bad parenting is the same as non-parenting so to speak.

This is not Hyundai's direct fault so ZZMan a little off base.

 

[The Lube Guy]

I quit reading Marketwatch and deleted the bookmark several years ago when they went from a biz site to clickbait site.

Everyone has adopted the clickbait tactic now. YouTubers have specialized in it. Then they get upset when you call them out.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Just wow. I have spent my life in manufacturing and been in probably 50 stamping houses. The fact that one of the other employees wouldn't call and out them says something. I would, although I guess maybe its hard to tell by appearance.

If true, then its not bad press is there problem, there criminals.

Looks like a nice facility from the outside.

 

[4WD]

Except that you don't know the socioeconomic situation of the family that the child belongs to. Working is better than being out on the streets, doing bad things, like joining a gang for example.

Or home playing blow some heads off on the computer …

 

[Triple_Se7en]

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

When factoring-in adult deaths after birth of their children - lets add adult physical and mental handicaps, plus the divorce rate - plus the high number of special needs children these days, there's an enormous amount of 13 year-old kids that do not live with their parents.

 

[pbm]

Except that you don't know the socioeconomic situation of the family that the child belongs to. Working is better than being out on the streets, doing bad things, like joining a gang for example.

That's true.....maybe H/K and 'Best Practices' can use that as a defense too.

 

[zzyzzx]

I wonder if the 13 year old was born in the US?

 

[fdcg27]

Why do so many posters in this thread try to pretend that Hyundai wasn't directly involved when they had an equity stake in the Smart Alabama concern during the relevant period, only divesting it in February of 2023, maybe when things were starting to look bad?
Hear no evil, see no evil is not a valid defense for any legal person, including a corporation.
The girl in question was part of a migrant family from Guatemala, as were her two underage brothers also working in the plant. I have found no information on their legal status in the US.

 

[Astro14]

Why do so many posters in this thread try to pretend that Hyundai wasn't directly involved when they had an equity stake in the Smart Alabama concern during the relevant period, only divesting it in February of 2023, maybe when things were starting to look bad?
Hear no evil, see no evil is not a valid defense for any legal person, including a corporation.

If you read what Hyundai said, in the story, they had strict compliance requirements with applicable laws like child labor laws.

Smart Alabama signed those agreements. Stated that they were in full compliance.

They lied to Hyundai, in other words.

So, it’s no different than you having a contract with somebody, and then that person does something criminal, even though you had a signed agreement that required them to obey the law.

If they told you that they obeyed the law, how would you become the criminal?

 

[fdcg27]

If you read what Hyundai said, in the story, they had strict compliance requirements with applicable laws like child labor laws.

Smart Alabama signed those agreements. Stated that they were in full compliance.

They lied to Hyundai, in other words.

So, it’s no different than you having a contract with somebody, and then that person does something criminal, even though you had a signed agreement that required them to obey the law.

If they told you that they obeyed the law, how would you become the criminal?

Fine, except that Hyundai had an ownership stake in this company, not just an arm's length relationship with the company as a supplier.
So yeah, it is a bit different.

 

[ZZman]

If you read what Hyundai said, in the story, they had strict compliance requirements with applicable laws like child labor laws.

Smart Alabama signed those agreements. Stated that they were in full compliance.

They lied to Hyundai, in other words.

So, it’s no different than you having a contract with somebody, and then that person does something criminal, even though you had a signed agreement that required them to obey the law.

If they told you that they obeyed the law, how would you become the criminal?

Someone at Hyundai dropped the ball and wasn't checking up on a subsidiaries practices. If it was a straight up third party only supplying parts I would agree with you.

What I can't believe is how this person didn't look too young to be doing that work. I wonder if they lied about their age or no one really cared.