Foxconn again implicated in a human exploitation affair

It is not the first time that Foxconn has appeared in the media for issues related to the exploitation of people or the illegal use of workers. In this case, what a report published in some media shows shows that Foxconn used about 3.000 students to increase production of the new iPhone models, the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X.

In this sense, it is important to clarify that the company does not work only with Apple, but it is one of the main suppliers of the brand and therefore they always receive audits from the Cupertino company itself so that the legal regulations on the employees that in she work. After reading the report it is shown that these students aged between the 17 and 19 year olds were forced or pressured to work more hours than the legal ones if they wanted to obtain their graduation ...

In principle, the hours worked by these students are not contemplated within the current legislation of the company, since They can do a maximum of 40 hours a week and they did 11 hours a day for three months. Apple and Foxconn have also been in charge of officially communicating that all these people had their compensation for the hours worked, but in no case should they have done them.

The news leapt to the media after the report Posted by FT, now Foxconn itself and Apple confess that several employees worked illegal overtime to comply with the demand of the companies, in this case for the iPhone X. The origin or the reasons that have led all these students to do more hours than they can legally do is unknown, but some media claim that the pressure from the schools on them with not obtaining the graduation of studies is on the table. Several students claim that they were forced by the schools and that in many cases their studies have nothing to do with technology.

It is true that we had not this type of news for a long time and it is all due to the great work done by both Foxconn and Apple, but it is inevitable when the pressures on both companies are so strong and that is why This is bad news, very bad. Now it is important to clarify what happened and continue conducting audits in these companies to avoid more cases like these. In short, it is very difficult to control what Foxconn does in its assembly lines since the job is very different from everything we know here, but you have to keep working hard so that this doesn't happen..