14 DAY TRIAL // A report by China Labor Watch on Thursday went down hard on a Wuxi, China-based Apple supplier over harsh working conditions, unpaid wages, illegal overtime work, etc.
Apple supplier Jabil Circuit, which reportedly assembles the all-new iPhone 5C which Apple is set to unveil next week, has been accused of numerous violations at its factory in Wuxi, China.
According to All Things D, these include “hiring discrimination, overcrowding, poor training, mandatory overtime — three times in excess of legal limits — and the withholding of overtime pay.”
China Labor Watch takes note of all these wrongdoings (and likely some others) in its report, noting that all this “runs counter to Apple’s Code of Conduct and their self-reporting of conditions at these facilities.”
Apple, for its part, acknowledged the accusations and decided to send some people down in China to investigate these claims.
The Cupertino, California-based computer giant reportedly said, “We are troubled by recent allegations related to excessive overtime, unpaid overtime, and working conditions at our Wuxi, China site.”
“An audit team is en route to Wuxi to thoroughly investigate these claims. While we are aware of the desire of many employees to work overtime, our goal is to regulate overtime to achieve a consistently high level of compliance with Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) standards,” Apple said.