Apple's Foxconn Supplier Makes 284 Changes After Labor Audits

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Source: Bloomberg News

Foxconn Technology Group, Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s largest supplier, cut working hours and improved safety conditions at its China factories after inspections by the Fair Labor Association found dozens of violations, the group said.

The changes are among 284 made by Foxconn this year after FLA audits at three of the Taiwan-based company’s plants logged more than 50 breaches of Chinese regulations, the group said in a report released today. Foxconn is ahead of its own 15-month schedule for upgrading conditions and meeting FLA mandates, with 76 more items due for completion by July 1, the group said.

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook brought the Cupertino, California-based company into the FLA in January after suicides by at least 10 Foxconn employees in 2010 highlighted conditions at the supplier. Cook has pledged not to turn a “blind eye” to problems in a supply chain that includes competitor Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-21/foxconn-reduces-working-hours-boosts-safety-after-fla-audits

[onehandle]

1. Thanks to Apple, not Google, Amazon, HP, Dell, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Asus or any of the...

...dozens of companies that use the same factories.

They did not join the effort in name or initiative.

'Labor groups have turned their attention to Apple supplier and rival Samsung, the Suwon, South Korea-based maker of Galaxy handsets and Smart TVs. China Labor Watch, a New York-based group headed by activist Li Qiang, earlier this month accused a Samsung assembler in China of hiring child workers and having working conditions “well below” those at Apple suppliers.'

[amerciti001]

2. Yeah;Yeah...

The FLA found all these violations, after a Labor Audit, but did not find any of the jobs that has been stripped from the USA, outsourced overseas and leaving us American workers without jobs. This is the one violation the FLA failed to find. Mmmmmmmmm!!!