Foxconn Admits To Underage Interns Working In Factories

China’s biggest manufacturing company (with respect to the number of employees it owned of about 1.2 billion) Foxconn Technology Group, during a survey found underage interns as young as 14 working at one of its factories.

Foxconn Technology Group owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co produces iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc. and also assembles products for Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.

The company has admitted all the responsibility of violating the rules and has apologized from all those school going underage students; furthermore it added that any employee who found to be involved in such violation would be terminated straight away.

A labor rights group in China also took notice of such violation and stated that “although the primary responsibility of such violation lays with the schools involved but the company itself also responsible for not confirming the age of its employees”.

Foxconn has claimed that it has faced a complaint from its underage interns in August that they were compelled by their schools to work in its factories in China.

So to fix this issue and some other issues as well The Fair Labor Association is hired by Apple to audit working conditions at Foxconn factories whose focus is to confirm the age of student interns.

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