Underage Foxconn interns return to school
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E-mail Xinhua, October 17, 2012
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A Foxconn workshop |
Chinese Labor Law refers to workers below the age of 16 as child laborers. Employers can be fined or have their business licenses revoked for illegally hiring child laborers, according to the law.
The underage workers were among thousands of student interns sent to factories by vocational schools in Yantai after Foxconn turned to the Administration Committee of the Yantai Development Zone for help in solving a severe labor shortage that occurred in September, when the company reported a shortage of 19,000 workers.
Foxconn's Yantai factory is one of the company's eight major production bases on the mainland. The factory went into operation in 2004 and produces PCs, mobile phones and video game consoles.
By 2011, the company had realized an output value of 109.6 billion yuan (17.5 billion U.S. dollars), ranking first among all overseas-funded firms registered in east China's Shandong Province.
In contrast to the export plight currently suffered by many Chinese manufacturing firms amid the eurozone debt crisis, Foxconn's production has been increasing, with 32 production lines recently added to help the company keep up with its orders.
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