Underage Foxconn interns return to school
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E-mail Xinhua, October 17, 2012
Students from vocational schools in east China's city of Yantai are returning to their classrooms following a Tuesday apology from Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer that hired the children to work as interns.
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The Foxconn pass and ID card of an underage intern |
Sources from the Administration Committee of Yantai Development Zone said Wednesday that the interns would be returning to school. The committee did not specify how many interns were hired by Foxconn, a major supplier for Apple Inc.
Foxconn said in a statement issued Tuesday night that it carried out an internal investigation at a factory in Yantai and found that it had employed underage interns ranging in age from 14 to 16 for about three weeks.
Foxconn spokesman Bruce Liu said Wednesday that the statement was an "apology to the underage workers and their parents."
He said the incident is an individual case and has not occurred in any other Foxconn factories on the Chinese mainland.
"Foxconn is expanding its manufacturing ability on the mainland. The company cooperated with vocational schools, under the coordination of local authorities, to hire student interns to work in some of Foxconn's factories in order to solve occasional labor shortage issues," Liu said.
Foxconn said in the statement that approximately 2.7 percent of its workforce of 1.2 million people on the Chinese mainland are interns.
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