Apple promoting child labor

Apple promoting child laborAuditors and the legal authorities who visited Apple factories where Apple and its parts were being manufactured have found underage teens working as 'Apple - contracted facilities' termed as "Supplier Responsibility" on their website.

According to the report the inspectors who visited facilities in China, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States, checked these facilities all across. In the inspection, the auditors found records of 11 workers who had been hired prior to reaching the legal age, although the workers were no longer underage or no longer active in employment at the time of the audit.

Also, according to the code the age limit is 16, the workers held were only 15 when they were hired. The audit also reveals that Apple's 60 different facilities have workers working more then the specified time limit.

After the report, Apple has immediately implemented some measures. Few of the applied measures are repayment of workers who were underpaid and implementation of new techniques to ensure correct payment and weekly work-time in the future. The company pledges to coordinate with the factories to be certain on their appropriate steps.