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Apple suspends key vendor after finding student workers being exploited, coverup
Apple has suspended one of its key manufacturing vendors after learning that it violated labor rules pertaining to student workers. Bloomberg reported that Taiwan’s Pegatron, misclassified workers in order to allow them to work night shifts and overtime. Further it states, Pegatron later made a massive effort to cover up the transgression, which Apple discovered several weeks ago.
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MIDESSA
2 months
Hey don't knock child labor its made America the country it is today. Well that and slavery and genocide of tha native occupants.
Amoneywilson
2 months
“Taiwan based”, yet manufacturers are in mainland China. The Chinese labor laws now after the election are important enough for Apple.
David
2 months
Pick on Taiwan & not China, hmmm?
Freedom Nuggets
2 months
Good ol Apple and child labor.
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Apple charges a small fortune for a phone yet gets cheap labor to make these phones. No wonder they are the most valuable company ever. Captain Obvious here...