#3 Chinese Sweatshops

The reports about Foxconn, which manufactures Apple devices, exposed inhuman conditions which the employees are subjected to. There were reports that many employees committed suicide by jumping from the heights of manufacturing unit. Since then, the factory is said to have placed net at the base of the building.

Adding to it some of the reports also stated that vocational students are being compelled to work at plants that make iPhones and their components.

In September 2012, Chinese state-run news media reported that several vocational schools in the city of Huai’an, were closed to help Foxconn with supply of students for work and they made students to work for more than 12 hours a day. Ironically some students are from Law and English departments, all this to ease the worker shortages and see the release of latest iPhone5 as for the charts and meet the huge supply demands quickly.

Other companies like Samsung, Sony and Nintendo use the same Foxconn factories as Apple does, but having the status as the first among the peers, Apple should have had taken some initiation to act on labour issues.

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