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The strange part is that Apple has been conducting inspections of its Chinese contractors for seven straight years.\u00a0 Yet here’s what the latest round revealed, according to a compliance report issued Friday by the company itself. <\/p>\n
The strange part is that Apple has been conducting inspections of its Chinese contractors for seven straight years.\u00a0 Yet here’s what the latest round revealed, according to a compliance report issued Friday by the company itself. <\/p>\n
(1) A total of 11 Apple-contracted facilities were found using underage labor, with 106 active, individual cases and 70 historical cases.\u00a0 ‘Underage’ is loosely defined as anyone under the age of 15.<\/p>\n
(2) Bonded labor was found being practiced at 8 different facilities.\u00a0 This practice, banned in the US, describes an arrangement in which a worker is given a high-interest loan by the factory owner, and forced to work off the principal and interest at excessively low wages (closely related to indentured servitude).<\/p>\n
(3) On that note, 8 percent of facilities were forcing workers into involuntary overtime (more than 60 hours a week, without at least one day of rest). <\/p>\n
(4) 90 facilities were found deducting wages as a disciplinary measure.<\/p>\n
(5) 34 facilities required female applicants to take a pregnancy test.<\/p>\n
(6) 25 facilities conducted mandatory medical testing, including for Hepatitis B. <\/p>\n
(7) At 88 facilities, proper protective equipment such as safety shoes, gloves, masks, goggles, and earplugs, were not provided to workers.<\/p>\n
(8) At 53 facilities, protective equipment was provided but did not meet the safety standards.<\/p>\n
(9) 177 facilities did not have proper emergency exits or emergency escape procedures.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
(10) 74 facilities did not include night-shift workers in their emergency fire drills.<\/p>\n
(11) 34 factories did not conduct emergency evacuation drills at all.<\/p>\n
(12) At 20 of the facilities, fire alarms were not installed throughout the premises.<\/p>\n
(13) 38 facilities had at least one emergency exit locked.<\/p>\n
(14) At 102 of the facilities, night-shift workers were not paid proper overtime wages on holidays.<\/p>\n
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Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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