All posts tagged "leukemia"

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    SK to compensate employees with work-related leukemia

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it plans to compensate employees suffering from what they claim is an occupational disease, although clear links to the working environment have not been...

    • Posted November 25, 2015
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  • Kim Ji-hyung, fourth from left, head of a three-member mediation committee, speaks during negotiations for cancer-stricken Samsung workers, in the office of Jipyong, a law firm, in Seoul Friday. (Yonhap)
    Samsung to compensate all leukemia-stricken workers

    By Kim Yoo-chul Samsung Electronics will compensate all former workers who contracted leukemia and other diseases after working at its display and semiconductor facilities, the company said on Friday. “Samsung Electronics will compensate all former workers who...

    • Posted January 16, 2015
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  • An advocacy group dealing with deaths and illness among Samsung Electronics employees stages a protest in front of Samsung Electronics building. (Yonhap)
    [HuffPo] Samsung’s Devastating Secret: The Tears Of ‘Semiconductor Children’

      Over the past few years, Samsung Corporation has faced a number of troubling allegations about the health of some of its workers in the company’s home base, South Korea. Former workers and their...

    • Posted December 2, 2014
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    Help A3M save lives by getting one person to register

    September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches, A3M, is trying to add 1,000 new marrow donors to the national marrow registry to help all patient with blood cancers like leukemia. Every 4 minutes someone...

    • Posted September 9, 2014
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  • An advocacy group dealing with deaths and illness among Samsung Electronics employees stages a protest in front of Samsung Electronics building. (Yonhap)
    Appellate court upholds decision against Samsung for employees’ leukemia deaths

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — An appellate court said Thursday Samsung Electronics Co. is to blame for the leukemia deaths of two of its former production-line employees, upholding a lower court’s landmark decision three years ago. In 2011, the...

    • Posted August 21, 2014
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