• #Foxconn admits hiring children as young as 14 at its factory in China | Technology | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/17/foxconn-children-14-factory-china

    Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, has acknowledged hiring student interns as young as 14 in a Chinese factory.

    The case is in breach of national law and raises further questions about its intern programme.

    Employment rights activists in China have accused Foxconn and other big employers in the country of using young student interns as a cheap source of labour for production lines, where it is difficult to attract adult workers to lower-paid jobs.

    Foxconn, the trading name of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, said it had found that some interns at a factory in Yantai, in the north-eastern Shandong province, were under the legal working age of 16. It did not say how many were underage.

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