World's
biggest smartphone maker suspends business ties with Dongguan Shinyang
Electronics after China Labor Watch report
theguardian.com,
Associated Press, Monday 14 July 2014
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Samsung showroom in Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/
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Samsung has said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children.
The South
Korean company, which is the world's biggest smartphone maker, said in its blog on Monday that it had found possible evidence of child labour and illegal
hiring at Dongguan Shinyang Electronics.
Samsung
said last week it would urgently look into the Chinese supplier following a
New-York-based watchdog's report that it had hired at least five children under
the age of 16.
China Labor Watch said children as well as minors under 18 worked at Shinyang for three to
six months to meet production targets during a period of high demand. The
watchdog said the child workers were paid for 10 hours a day but worked 11
hours.
The report
detailed 15 labour violations discovered during its undercover investigation.
They included child labour, the absence of safety training, no overtime wages
and no social insurance for temporary workers, who constituted at least 40% of
1,200 employees at the Chinese cellphone parts supplier for Samsung.
China Labor
Watch's report came shortly after Samsung said its audit had found no child
labour at hundreds of Chinese suppliers. Samsung began inspecting its Chinese
suppliers after the watchdog raised the issue in 2012.
Samsung said it would permanently stop doing business with Shinyang if a Chinese investigation found evidence of child labour.
Samsung said it would permanently stop doing business with Shinyang if a Chinese investigation found evidence of child labour.
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