Kuala Lumpur — Amazon pledged on Friday to investigate claims of worker abuse at a factory in China after labour activists said students as young as 17 were put on night shifts and legal overtime limits broken.
Research by New York-based China Labour Watch found the factory, used by manufacturer Foxconn to make the online retail company’s Echo Dot smart speaker and Kindle e-reader, relied on temporary student workers and excessive overtime...
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