Allegations have been made that Dyson whose products are widely sold in Australia is manufacturing products using “slave labour”.

Currently Dyson is fighting dozens of migrant workers who allege they were subjected to forced labor, with the UK Company who moved their head office to Singapore for tax reason, told by the UK Court of Appeal in London that the workers can mount their case in the UK after Dyson fought to get the case hear in Malaysia.

The Company who is making parts for their overpriced stick vacs and vacuum cleaners in a Malaysian factory is accused of manufacturing in factories where employees were abused,
while making parts for British vacuum cleaner Company.

Twenty-four workers from Nepal and Bangladesh, one of whom has died and whose estate brought the case, sued Dyson Technology, Dyson and a Malaysian subsidiary in 2022.

The claimants were workers for Malaysian firm ATA Industrial or its sister company and made components for Dyson products.

lawyers acting for the workers say the workers had money unlawfully deducted from their wages and were sometimes beaten for not meeting onerous targets.

The allegations are spelt out in a lawsuit brought in London’s High Court where it was alleged that the Dyson companies were ultimately responsible for the plight of the workers.

Dyson denies the claimants’ allegations and argues that any lawsuit should be brought in Malaysia rather than Britain.

Last year, the High Court threw the case out and ruled that the workers could sue in Malaysia.

But the Court of Appeal overturned that decision, saying in a written ruling that London was “clearly and distinctly the appropriate forum” for the cases to be heard.

“This was a procedural hearing to determine where the main case should ultimately be heard,” a Dyson spokesperson said.

“The High Court was right last year in its carefully considered ruling that it should be heard in Malaysia, and we disagree with today’s appeal decision,” the spokesperson added, explaining that Dyson was reviewing its legal options.

The company — founded by James Dyson, the inventor of the bagless cleaner — employs around 2,500 people in Britain, including at its R&D center in Malmesbury, west England, having announced in July that it was cutting about 1,000 jobs.