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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

postheadericon Child labour uncovered in Apple's supply chain

internal audit revealed 106 children

employees in 11 manufacturing Apple products in the last year

Apple has discovered several cases of child labor in its supply chain, including a Chinese company employs 74 children less than 16 years, most recently, methods of making the technology giant.

An internal audit revealed the other side of the insatiable U.S. consumer gadgets and competitive prices. They found 106 cases of child labor is used in Apple's suppliers last year and 70 cases historically. The report is based on a series of suicides of workers on working conditions at Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles essential products such as the iPad and iPhone, and deadly explosions in other factories.

annual Apple suppliers - which controls about 400 vendors - found that children were employed in 11 factories involved in the manufacture of its products. Some of them were recruited with false identity documents.

The report found a catalog of other crimes, ranging from mandatory pregnancy tests, bonded laborers whose wages are seized to pay the debts imposed by recruitment agencies. They also found cases of children who are accustomed to heavy lifting, workers have their wages docked as punishment and an oil mill waste dumping in the bathrooms.

A Chinese supplier, a manufacturer of circuit board component called the Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics, has been fired from Apple after 74 children under 16 have been recruited to work on the lines production. According to Apple, the children had been deliberately provided by one of the largest recruitment agencies in the region, Human Resources Quanshun Shenzhen. Its researchers found that the agency conspired with families falsify identification. Apple did not release the age of the children concerned, but the Code of Conduct states that do not employ workers under 15, or under the legal age to work in any jurisdiction - which is 16 China

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In Pingzhou, the children were returned to their families and the employer was "obliged to pay to facilitate their successful return." Although 95% of establishments comment by Apple complied with laws child labor, offenders were told to return the children to a school chosen by their families, pay for their education, and gives them an income equivalent to the salary of the factory.

bondage was discovered in eight plants. To find work, some foreign workers pay fees to a chain of recruitment agencies and sub-agencies, accumulating huge debts. Their salaries are automatically delivered to repay their debts, linking the work until the balance is paid.

Apple
ordered its suppliers to pay excessive recruitment fees - pay no more than a month -. He said that $ 6.4 million (? 4 million) was returned to workers hired in 2012

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