Leaked Doc Shows Schoolchildren Illegally Employed To Produce Amazon Alexa Devices
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By Jack Davis
Published August 9, 2019 at 7:46am
A watchdog group is claiming that electronics giant Foxconn is illegally employing teenagers to make electronic devices that include Amazon’s Alexa.
The group China Labor Watch reported the illegal conditions at the Hengyang Foxconn plant, which employs almost 7,500 people, were first noted in 2018, but have grown worse since then.
Students forced to work excessive overtime and night shifts that violate Chinese labor laws are between the ages 16 and 18, The Guardian reported.
China Labor Watch said that the students are recruited from vocational schools, and are paid $1.42 per hour. Teachers at the schools get paid for supplying students and schools get paid for the number of hours interns work.
The factory seeks to evade limits on student employment by classifying the youth as interns. China Labor Watch said that Foxconn exceeds the legal limit on interns, who are paid less than regular employees.
In a statement to The Western Journal, Amazon said it is investigating the allegations against its supplier.
“We do not tolerate violations of our Supplier Code of Conduct. We regularly assess suppliers, using independent auditors as appropriate, to monitor continued compliance and improvement–if we find violations, we take appropriate steps, including requesting immediate corrective action,” Amazon said.
“We are urgently investigating these allegations and addressing this with Foxconn at the most senior level. Additional teams of specialists arrived on-site yesterday to investigate, and we’ve initiated weekly audits of this issue.”
China Labor Watch said the Foxconn factory violated Chinese labor laws by forcing students to work night shifts.
“Interns are required to work 10 hours a day, and this includes two hours of overtime, in addition to working six days a week. A number of interns were arranged to work night shifts. If interns were unwilling to work overtime or night shifts, the factory would arrange for teachers to pressure workers,” China Labor Watch wrote.
“For interns who refuse to work overtime and night shifts, the factory requests teachers from their schools to fire them. Teachers often physically and verbally attack interns, and on July 30, many workers witnessed a teacher hitting an intern. The teacher aggressively grabbed the intern by the ear, did not let him swipe out of work and scolded him.”
The plant also violates overtime rules for all workers, China Labor Watch said, claiming that in July, 375 of the plant’s workers were worked beyond the overtime rules.
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