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Apple Drops Chinese Tech Supplier Over Labor Violations

January 27, 2013
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Business & Society, Labor

Apple has been stepping up its corporate social responsibility activities in China by announcing it has severed relationships with a company it says "willfully and illegally recruited young workers".

Laid out in its latest "Apple Supplier Responsibility: 2013 Progress Report", Apple delves into its latest efforts to maintain a clean supply chain around the world. The company conducted 393 audits covering facilities where it claims more than 1.5 million workers make Apple-related products. Apple also says it conducted 27 targeted bonded labor audits to protect workers from excessive recruitment fees.

For China, Apple says a third-party labor agent was behind many infractions where young workers were hired. The company's report states" "In January 2012, for example, we audited a supplier, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics Co., Ltd. (PZ) that produces a standard circuit board component used by many other companies
in many industries. Our auditors were dismayed to discover 74 cases of workers under age 16—a core violation of our Code of Conduct. As a result, we terminated our business relationship with PZ."

Apple also says Shenzhen Quanshun Human Resources Company Ltd., which is apparently one of the regions largest labor agencies, was helping to provide those children to PZ. Apple says in some cases children's ages were forged with alleged consent by the parents.

Apple's CSR woes in China have been entwined with the activities of many second and third-tier supplies it has worked with currently and in the past. For example, Taiwan-based Foxconn, which produces Apple components, has had well-publicized suicides.

Tags: Apple, Foxconn, Guangdong, Henan, human resources, iPad, iPhone, Shenzhen, sustainability report, Taiwan

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