China Labor Watch criticized the Amazon assembly facility for relying on temporary workers — including high school interns.
Foxconn Technology Group fired two executives at a Chinese plant that assembles devices for Amazon.com Inc., responding to a labor group’s allegations it slashed wages and flouted laws to help deal with rising U.S. tariffs.
Wages, which last year the labor group deemed too low to support a “decent standard of living,” were slashed an additional 16% in 2019, the New York-based group said Thursday, citing documents it obtained.That salary hasn’t been enough to draw enough full-time workers to the factory, which requires more than 7,000 people to operate 58 assembly lines during the peak production period that begins in July.
Foxconn said it recently conducted a review of its Hengyang facility and determined that the proportion of contract workers and student interns had on occasion exceeded legal thresholds, and that some interns had been allowed to work overtime or nights. “We were not in full compliance with all relevant laws and regulation,” the company said in an emailed statement Thursday.
• Such student workers were forced to work night shifts and overtime, in violation of the law, and some interns were physically and verbally abused by teachers overseeing their work. Foxconn, which billionaire Terry Gou built into the world’s main assembler of Apple iPhones, has grappled for years with allegations about mistreatment of a workforce estimated at 1 million-plus and drawn from China’s vast population of migrant laborers. In 2010, a rash of suicides prompted intense criticism, after which Foxconn pledged to overhaul its systems.
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