It has recently been reported that Apple fired its China-based labor supplier after the company discovered that their supplier employed 74 underage workers. In its latest Supplier Responsibility report, Apple has detached its affiliation to its China-based labor supplier, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics (PZ), after discovering that the supplier is hiring dozens of child laborers. Upon knowing about this hideous act of child labor, Apple reported the violation to the local authorities.
The agency who provided the child laborers to the company falsified the documents of the child laborers, changing their ages to prevent the authorities from knowing about their agenda, which in turn caused their company to face charges and their license suspended. PZ Electronics was required to pay the expenses due to the child laborers, who were then returned to their respective families.
This specific expose was comprised in Apple’s annual report to help provide the safety of its employees and partners in production, and with this, Apple pledged to work on preventing further abuses that might occur under their company.
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