Apple has a lot of supplying company and most them based in Asia, where assembled in China. At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple in this country. Truely, in my country this has violated the law of children protection. But, what is happening in that country ?
Why they willing the company using children to produce majority gadgets? But healthy of children didn’t respect?.
In Apple annual reports, Apple said that the child workers are now no longer being used, or are no longer underage. “In each of the three facilities, we required a review of all employment records for the year as well as a complete analysis of the hiring process to clarify how underage people had been able to gain employment.” It’s that true ?. I dont think so. Because, according to other source, still lot of company stay using the child workers.
Beside that, Apple admitted that at least 55 of the 102 factories that produce its goods were ignoring Apple’s rule that staff cannot work more than 60 hours a week. Only 65 % of the factories were paying their staff the correct wages and benefits, and Apple found 24 factories where workers had not even been paid China’s minimum wage of around 800 yuan (Pounds76) a month. Apple also said that one of its factories had repeatedly falsified its records in order to conceal the fact that it was using child labour and working its staff endlessly.
So, the conclusion when Apple found these facts, will Apple stopping the factory ? Until now, Apple has not stopped using the factories. In 2008, Apple found that a total of 25 child workers had been employed to build iPods, iPhones and its range of computers. But neither we, the customers, nor the hiring companies should in any way agree with the practices of these suppliers’ factories. So let’s hear about what’s being done to prevent such issues in the future!
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