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Foxconn Admits Hiring 14-Year Old Students at Chinese Factory
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Taiwan's Foxconn Technology has admitted that it has employed interns as young as 14 years old in its Chinese factories.
The interns are not thought to have worked on any Apple products, as they were taken on on the city of Yantai in eastern China, which is not one of the Apple assembly locations - as far as anyone is aware.
In a statement, Foxconn said that it is currently carrying out an investigating into how the interns were employed and will fire the responsible people.
"We recognise that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company and we have apologised to each of the students for our role in this action," the electronics manufacturer said in a statement.
Human rights lobby, China Labor Watch said that the under-age interns were mainly sent to Foxconn by schools, but Foxconn did not check the IDs of the students.
It's not known how many students worked for Foxconn, but the number is said to be "small".
China Labor Watch added that the schools involved in this incident should take primary responsible, but Foxconn is also culpable for not confirming the ages of their workers.
Tags: [foxconn technology] [China]
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