apple watch reportedly assembled by illegal high school labor, apple investigating

Monday, October 29, 2018, 07 04 am PT.   Apple is undertaking investigation into allegations one of the company's manufacturing partners, has been hiring school students to build Apple Watches China...   We are urgently investigating the report that student interns added September working overtime and night shifts, Financial Times..   We have zero tolerance for failure to comply with our standards and we ensure action and appropriate remediation if we discover violations...   Hong Kong-based labor rights group, Sacom, interviewed 28 such students this summer at Quanta Chongqing.   they had been sent to the factory on internships, and reality handled the same tasks as anyone else, often working overtime and night shifts.   We are scheduled to work at night, from 8 p.m to 8 a.m., of the labor violations..   In 2017, for example, it was forced to admit that interns at Foxconn Zhengzhou worked overtime building iPhones..   The company's manufacturing partners are often under intense pressure to keep up with Apple demand during the fall launch season, with some factories as much as tripling their workforces.   Younger Chinese have meanwhile become uninterested in working on lines, leading to factories making pacts with local schools...   Read more