The Court of Appeal has today ruled that a legal case brought by migrant workers against Dyson regarding allegations of forced labour and dangerous conditions at two Malaysian factories, which made electronics products for Dyson, can be heard in the English courts.

The claim against Dyson is being brought by 23 migrant workers and the estate of one deceased migrant worker who worked at factories operated by two supplier companies ATA Industrial and Jabco in Johor, Malaysia, where many Dyson products were made.   The factories were operated by ATA and Dyson denies that it is responsible for any unlawful acts of ATA Industrial and Jabco.

The group of Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers worked at the factory for between three and nine years. They allege forced labour, false imprisonment, assault, battery, cruel and degrading treatment and exposure to extremely hazardous working conditions and abusive living conditions.

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