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Foxconn confirms death of worker at Chinese plant after watchdog reports suicide

wol — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:59:46 +0000

Reuters

Foxconn's long hours causing workers' deaths

wkf — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:34:00 +0000

February 3 2015

Foxconn, among some other companies in China, allegedly forced their employees work to overtime, which resulted in occasional karoshi (death caused by overwork or job-related exhaustion) and suicide, an official with the All China Federation of Trade Union (ACFTU) said on Monday, Beijing News reported.

Guo Jun, secretary of ACFTU's secretariat, made the remarks during a press conference in Beijing on Monday.

According to Guo, employees in these enterprises work for more than 10 hours everyday and rarely have days off. Some privately owned, or middle- and small-sized enterprises don't offer paid leave to workers. These illegal long hours lead to various psychological issues among their employees, which sometimes cause karoshi and suicide.

Foxconn, a major supplier of components to Apple, has been in the news in recent years after a series of suicides by workers, which activists blamed on tough and high-pressure working conditions.

Lack of investigations and light punishment are reasons behind the illegal overtime, Guo said, adding that many companies even learn from Foxconn how to make more profits.

Firm suspected of using child labor

wkf — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:54:49 +0000

Shenzhen Daily

A TECHNOLOGY company in Shenzhen is suspected of using child laborers who were forced to work 12 hours a day and paid 2,000 yuan (US$328) a month, the Southern Metropolis Daily has reported.

The Shenzhen Click Technology Co. factory is located in an industrial park in Fuyong in Bao’an District, and produces batteries and magnetic components.

A Daily reporter contacted labor authorities Friday after chatting with some children who said they were primary school students and worked at the factory.

The newspaper said factory administrators had illegally hired 69 children -- 12 or 13 years old and from Liangshan, Sichuan Province -- a

Apple’s labour rights monitor finds little progress at Foxconn

wkf — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:11:07 +0000

30.12.2013

After three years of engagement at three Foxconn factories in China, the FLA has released its third and final verification assessment. Despite big promises to deliver labour rights improvements, the Fair Labor Association (FLA), tasked by Apple to remedy rights violations at its supplier Foxconn, has achieved little.

While the assessment points to some reforms – health and safety improvements and reduction of the working week (although not to the level of complying with Chinese law) – there has been little if any progress on key issues of wages and back pay. FLA had promised that compensation would increase sufficiently to offset any reduction in overtime hours and that workers would receive compensation for the vast amounts of unpaid overtime they had already done. In addition, a study would be done to determine the amount of compensation necessary to provide for the basic needs of workers. Yet this third and final assessment report does not mention any of these promises.

Big pressure for not being allowed to chat at work? Two Foxconn employees jumped to death

LabourWorld — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:42:26 +0000

An investigation of dispatch Labour system in China