Apple's China Plant Yet Again In Hot Soup Over Labor Issues
A spokesman for Apple offered no comment on the ongoing issue, but he said that the apple’s code of conduct makes it necessary for a supplier company to follow local labor laws when dealing with workers or interns.
Investigations by newspapers, outside groups and companies like Apple itself have revealed illegal amounts of overtime, crowded working conditions, under-age workers, improper disposal of hazardous waste and, in some cases, industrial accidents that have killed four people and injured more than 100 at Foxconn and other Chinese factories that supply Apple.
Earlier this year, Apple, after following the reports about labor issues in its supplier company had ordered an outside organization probe to audit the working conditions inside the plant.
Acting up on to save its face on Apple’s audit, Foxconn announced to stick by the Chinese labor law, and to decrease overtime hours; raise wages, along with improving working conditions.
In August, the Fair Labor Association — the group hired by Apple to audit Foxconn — said that, the company acted on and reduced extra work hours, provided good wages, and worked on to improve working conditions; but with the cost of need to hire thousands of the workers. Foxconn and Apple had adopted policies which makes sure that the interns could express their freewill to quit and still graduate and if worked they can associate their work in company to their studies.
“I am concerned about these recent reports, and we’re following up,” said Auret van Heerden, president and chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, in an interview. “If there have been any breakdowns in policies, we expect changes to be made.”
In the wake of the hour, big companies like Samsung, hp, are acting up on to save them from criticism, and trying to adhere by Chinese labor laws.
Local officials in Huai’an acted on these inhumanly practices, thanks to them, many of the students had returned to their schools, and looking forward for more hope.
