Contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn has disclosed that it has employed interns as young as 14 at one of its factories in China. The company, which serves a number of major IT brands and makes Apple’s iPhone, is working to comply with Chinese labour laws, a mammoth task given the prevailing compliance culture and its huge scale. Committing itself to a full investigation, the company said that employing such young interns was both “a violation of China’s labour law [and] of Foxconn policy”.
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