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DJ13

(23,671 posts) Mon Feb 27, 2012, 04:15 PM Feb 2012

Foxconn hid child labourers

23 Feb 2012

When Apple's inspectors visited the Foxconn plant last week, there was a surprising lack of child labour being used.

Appleinsider found a report from the Hong Kong-based nonprofit Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) that Apple tipped off Foxconn that the inspectors were coming and executives assigned them other work.

According to a SACOM report, 16- and 17-year olds are allowed to work under Apple's supplier code of conduct but with special restrictions on types and duration of their work.

SACOM project officer Debby Sze Wan Chan said she had heard from two Foxconn workers in Zhenghou that Foxconn was "prepared for the inspection."

http://news.techeye.net/hardware/foxconn-hid-child-labourers

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Foxconn hid child labourers (Original Post) DJ13 Feb 2012 OP

I don't know what they pay them but I was 16 when I first started working making minimum wage Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #1

Uncle Joe

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1. I don't know what they pay them but I was 16 when I first started working making minimum wage

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Mon Feb 27, 2012, 04:32 PM

Feb 2012

of 1.80 an hour and I worked ovetime when employees on the next shift didn't show up.

Having said that, if Apple warned FOXCONN of inspections, I believe that to be wrong.

Thanks for the thread, DJ13.

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