Collectors iPhone will improve working conditions in factories in China

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Collectors iPhone will improve working conditions in factories in China

American Apple and its Taiwanese partner, Foxconn agreed to take steps to improve working conditions in factories in China, which produces iPhone and iPad. This decision was made after an independent organization Fair Labor Association («Association of fair labor», FLA) conducted an audit of these enterprises with the consent of Apple. As noted by Reuters, verification has become the largest in the history of inspections at foreign sites on production of U.S. firms. She confirmed that the organization of labor in these factories are allowed numerous and serious violations. It clarifies the The Wall Street Journal, the list of all the inspectors were about five dozen violations. In particular, workers are forced to recycle - up to 60 hours per week, but overtime they often do not pay, there is also a risk to their health and life.

Foxconn is already promised to bring labor standards into conformity with the laws of China in July 2013 for this number of hours per week will be reduced so as not to exceed the permitted 49 hours per week (36 hours overtime), safety standards will be revised salary workers will increase. In order to not fall for this production, the company will employ tens of thousands of additional employees.
Apple has responded to this statement, which thanked the FLA for the work and supported all the recommendations of the association. Recently, because of such violations of the company was subjected to fierce criticism from human rights activists and trade union organizations. An audit of the FLA was a test of the strength of the new company CEO Tim Cook, who is working to improve the image of Apple, says Financial Times. Apple recently predctavila report on the results of its own inspection of working conditions at its factories in China, and noted some improvement. According to the company, if in 2011 62% of Chinese factories more than half of their employees worked more than 60 hours per week, in February 2012 already 89% of all workers worked less than 60 hours, and average of 48 hours per week.