Child labor used in iPhone plants

Tags
Apple  Industrial  iPhone  Labour  Smartphones  Supply chain

Child labor used in iPhone plants

Michael Carroll  |   March 01, 2010
telecomseurope.net
Thumbnail: 
Chid labor was used in three factories plants making the iPhone, Apple has revealed.
 
The smartphone is one of a number of popular Apple products found to have been made using parts assembled by children as young as 15 years old at several unspecified locations throughout Apple’s supply chain.
 
In its latest supply chain audit, Apple said it found 11 cases of 15 year olds being hired in countries where the legal minimum age of employment is 16.
 
It said the workers were either no longer underage or being employed at the time of the audit.
 
The firm uncovered three cases of suppliers providing false data, one of which involved further cases of child labor being used, and the latter two aimed at hiding breaches of an Apple code governing working hours and days off.
 
Apple also appears to blame suppliers for a recent poisoning incident at one of its Chinese facilities involving 62 staff.
 
The report cites three instances where suppliers used “noncertified hazardous waste disposal companies,” and states that Apple ordered each firm to “stop shipping waste,” until they hired approved handlers.
Source: 
telecomseurope.net
Michael Carroll

Similar

Related Articles

Tell Us What You Think

Add comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <a> <p> <span> <div> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <img> <img /> <map> <area> <hr> <br> <br /> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <table> <tr> <td> <em> <b> <u> <i> <strong> <font> <del> <ins> <sub> <sup> <quote> <blockquote> <pre> <address> <code> <cite> <embed> <object> <strike> <caption>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Use <!--pagebreak--> to create page breaks.

More information about formatting options

Frontpage Title Only

DAILY NEWS

Video from Telecom Channel

 
Concession conversion needed for level playing field -- DTAC
CEO says regulatory environment developing in right direction, but still a ways to go.  
 

Voices_tabs

What is IPX? The debate continues

Joseph Waring
Telcos prepare to take on OTT players

Amazon joins online TV craze

Robert Clark
Media companies need to cannibalize themselves
MORE

Google's social media strategy raises questions

Eden Zoller and Neha Dharia/Ovum
Needs to meld the disjointed pieces of its social media portfolio

Cliffhanger poll fractures NBN consensus

David Kennedy/Ovum
Aust govt needs a broadband policy
MORE

The network is the platform for cloud services

Kate Gerwig
The era of cloud computing has arrived: Forrester

Evolution needed in telecom sector

Martin Creaner
Inaction could lead to obsolescence
MORE

Frontpage Title Only

TOP 10

Frontpage Title Only

FEATURES

Frontpage Title Only

WHITE PAPERS

Frontpage Title Only

RESEARCH NOTES

businessweek_industryview

Tablet emergence could spell death of laptops: AT&T

Greg Bensinger
Up to $1k devices could replace all laptop functions
MORE

Virtual aggregation can manage internet routing tables

Ivan Pepelnjak
Address shortage and IPv6 deployment sparking an explosion in routing table growth
MORE

Frontpage Title Only

TELECOM CAREER

Frontpage Content by Category

SPECIALS

The top telecom stories in 1H2010

Telecomasia.net's most popular news stories, blogs, analysis and features in the first six months of 2010