The shortage of products such as AirPods and the iPhone X is leading Apple suppliers and manufacturers to cross the arc of the Fundamental Rights of thousands of employees in Asia. And it is that there are already several news that surround Foxconn, the main link in Apple's assembly line, in a series of scandals concerning workers' rights and their inhumane situations.
The flame is still quite alight, and it is that now some media have obtained information that seems to indicate the possibility that Foxconn employees are working hours that are illegal and that significantly impair the health of employees.
After the Financial Times reported that around 3.000 students were being employed irregularly in its industrial plants in China, now there is news with equally dangerous tints. TO Although employing these “children” does not seem entirely illegal in China, what the law in the Asian giant does not allow is that they be employed for days that exceed forty hours a week (a real madness in itself). However, according to the BBC this is not even an indication of seriousness, it seems that employees are doing numerous “overtime” in order to meet Apple's delivery needs. This is how these employees overcome days of more than twelve hours a day.
Despite the fact that Foxconn has issued a statement informing that it is taking active measures to prevent workers from working overtime in any case, the reality is that according to the BBC nothing seems to really change in the industrial buildings where they continue to work until exhaustion . The more than 300.000 employees continue to put out as many as 20.000 iPhone Xs a day, a high number but insufficient to satisfy an anxious market. Apple for its part has asked Foxconn that no worker be employed more than sixty hours a week, still twenty hours above the legal established in most cases for a developed country such as Spain (in France it is even lower).