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Apple: ‘Increase child from suppliers’
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Apple: ‘Increase child from suppliers’
Apple notes that there is increasing child labor in its suppliers. It reports the company’s annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report which was published this week.
In response to previous instances of child labor in Chinese hardware suppliers, the large number of suicides among the major purveyor Foxconn and criticism from the media, Apple says that they monitor the companies have tightened considerably.
Despite this stringent monitoring, Apple is still a significant increase in the incidence of child labor in these suppliers. Last year there were 11 cases brought to light, this year’s in the report that 91 children at ten different companies were at work.
Safety
In one of these companies were less than 42 children put to work and let Apple know this immediately to have it terminated the contract. Besides the increase in the number of detected cases of child labor, the report that the safety in the workplace in a number of companies to be desired.
This would in fact Wintek 137 workers poisoned by n-hexane, a hydrocarbon that is very damaging to health. The Supplier Responsibility Progress Report concludes with the disturbing conclusion that only 32 percent of companies surveyed meet the standard of one working week of 60 hours and one free day. A rate one year ago to 46 percent.