A worker ’ right group has slammed what it call the “ iPad mini maker ” for maintaining piteous working condition at a manufactory in China .
The labor protection group Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour ( SACOM ) released a account this workweek criticise working conditions at a factory in Shanghai run by RiTeng Computer Accessory Co. , a subsidiary of Taiwan - based electronics maker Pegatron .
RiTeng made headlines last year when anexplosionoccurred at one of its Shanghai factories that sent 61 workers to the hospital .
SACOM accused the provider of fostering widespread labor insult . extra time in the mill can reach up to 200 hours a month , five clip the sound limit , accord to SACOM .
The provider also often fail to pay for some of the extra time work log , SACOM said , and workers it interview also posit RiTeng has never given them the 10 - minute of arc breaks every two hours it once prognosticate .
Student labor
The group also interviewed scholar exploit at the provider ’s factories , who SACOM said are intern at the factory and earn about 85 kwai ( $ 13.50 ) a daytime for oeuvre , include overtime . SACOM said one educatee complained of exhaustion and say schooling teachers are requiring the students to intern at the factory to earn their graduate certificates .
In addition to the aver travail ill-usage , RiTeng ‘s manufacture facilities are still badly maintained , according to SACOM . This come after last twelvemonth ’s manufacturing plant explosion , which Shanghai authorities suggested in a preliminary probe could have been due to aluminum junk .
“ In the aftermath of the plosion , Riteng has not learned a object lesson from the tragedy , ” SACOM said .
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment . Pegatron and RiTeng representatives were also unavailable .
Apple ’s supply chain has come under rise scrutiny from both the mass medium and undertaking groups , following suicides and other doer - concern incident and deaths in China at another supplier , Foxconn Technology Group .
In answer to the criticism , Apple has say it has spent years better factory conditions at its suppliers , and wish well to make its supply chain a positive model for the diligence . Early this year , the company also raise the Fair Labor Association to scrutinize three Foxconn factories in China .
