An environmental protection group and labor rights group are trying to pressure Apple into abandoning two hazardous chemicals used to make iPhones. Green America and China Labor Watch launched their campaign Wednesday to protect the ...
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A labor watchdog group is slamming one of Apple’s suppliers for allegedly exploiting its Chinese workers to build the upcoming budget iPhone. To meet production orders for the device, a factory in Wuxi, China run by U.S.-based Jabil ...
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Computer giant Apple has become embroiled in a new row over its suppliers after China Labour Watch claimed that Pegatron, one of Apple's outsourced manufacturers in China, was violating local labour regulations. In a report released today ...
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Samsung Electronics has rejected allegations that underage workers are assembling its products after three non-government organizations (NGO) filed a complaint with a French prosecutor's office claiming that the tech company was violating ...
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Assembly line workers are logging 12-hour days to churn out the latest handsets for Samsung Electronics at a factory in Huizhou, China. 24-year-old Wang Hong Wei knows what it's like: He and about four to six others would collectively ...
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IDG News Service - Despite Samsung Electronics' efforts to rectify labor violations at its factories in China, little has changed for some workers. "Samsung had its investigators come to the factory. When they came, they just walked ...
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IDG News Service - A Chinese official on Monday weighed in on the controversy surrounding working conditions at Apple and Samsung's suppliers in the country, stating that certain companies were lacking in "human care" in treating their ...
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Apple supplier Foxconn has denied forcing vocational school students in China to work at its factories, following claims that the students must remain employed at the company or lose school credit. Foxconn said in a statement on Tuesday ...
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Samsung is facing accusations that the company deliberately tried to hide the employment of underage workers at a Chinese supplier, after a labor protection group said it found three girls under the age of 16 employed at the factory. On ...
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Local authorities in China said Thursday that they found no underage workers at a Samsung Electronics manufacturing supplier that a labor watchdog group claims has been employing students under the age of 16. The Huizhou Zhongkai Hi-tech ...
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Apple supplier Foxconn has steadily improved the working conditions at three of its Chinese factories following a February audit, by reducing employee overtime work and updating maintenance policies and safety procedures, a labor group said ...
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A Samsung supplier in China allegedly employs workers under the age of 16, according to a labor watchdog group, which found the student workers earn about US$1 an hour. China Labor Watch said it found the problems after sending ...
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Samsung Electronics announced new measures to keep its suppliers in China compliant with labor laws after it completed a round of audits that found problems relating to overtime and the way penalties were carried out. The South Korean ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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IDG News Service - Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said on Tuesday that students as young as 14, below the legal working age, were found employed at a company factory in China that has been said to make products for ...
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