Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time.
Staff making the world’s most popular MP3 player also worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time.
Apple said the hours were “excessive” and said its supplier would now be enforcing a “normal” 60-hour week
US Federal prosecutors have raised the amount that former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling should pay for his part in one of the largest fraud scandals ever.
Prosecutors want Skilling to pay the sum demanded by the court both from him, and from his now-deceased former co-defendant, Ken Lay, Enron’s founder.
They want Skilling to hand over $183m (£96m), the combined sum the two were set to pay, not just his $139m sum
Czech trade watchdogs have fined a unit of German utility RWE a record $17m (£8.9m) for violating competition laws.
Regulators said RWE’s gas operation, Transgas, had discriminated against regional gas distributors by offering better deals to its own subsidiaries
Dell, the world’s largest computer maker, is facing legal action in China over allegations of false advertising.
The group has been sued over charges its laptops contained a different, cheaper chip than those advertised.
According to state media reports at least 20 lawsuits have been filed against the Texas-based firm
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay out $70m (£36.9m) to settle numerous civil claims of price-fixing in the US.
Several states, health plans and numerous consumers had launched legal action against the group claiming it had inflated the price of some drugs
Internet giant AOL has apologised for releasing the search queries of more than 650,000 of its US subscribers.
The company admitted the release to researchers was “a screw up” and had breached the privacy of its users.
AOL said it was an “innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools”
Troubled software firm iSoft has found evidence of irregularities affecting its accounts for 2004 and 2005.
Isoft said the problems mainly related to stating revenues earlier than they should have been.
An independent probe into its accounting problems also concluded there were grounds for a more formal investigation, iSoft added
The boss of French car parts firm Faurecia, Pierre Levi, has resigned following the start of a criminal investigation into alleged bribery.
Mr Levi’s departure comes as German prosecutors claim Faurecia paid bribes to carmakers such as VW and BMW in order to win their business.
Frankfurt-based prosecutor Sibylle Gottwald said Mr Levi was aware of the bribes but denied direct involvement
An Indian non-governmental organisation says samples of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products are showing even worse levels of pesticides than in a previous study.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said their investigations revealed that the drinks contain harmful residues, posing a health risk.
A CSE report in 2003 resulted in Pepsi and Coca-Cola strenuously rejecting claims that their drinks were unsafe
A City worker employed in a “department from hell” has won about $1.5m damages for bullying.
Helen Green, 36, sued Deutsche Bank Group Services (UK) Ltd claiming harassment by colleagues and a lack of support from bosses