THE Lowly Peon

Apple's Supplier Responsibility Report

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14 February 2011, 11:44pm

Apple's complete 2010 audit report of 127 facilities, mostly in China but some in Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.

There are some really interesting parts of this, many to which I can relate after working at a Chinese factory for the last three-plus years. They mention the Foxconn suicides, and some other big issues:

• only roughly half passed the safety audit for workers,
• about a quarter had underage workers, and
• only a third followed overtime rules

As well as several other problems with management that I've seen first hand here in China, including overlooking significant problems, poor factory conditions, and, though I've never witnessed any, bribery using "connections" unethically.