Is Apple at the core of repeated supplier violations?
Latest incident shows that for all its talent and money, the US company does not control its suppliers
09 November 2020 - 17:47
Apple’s decision to suspend new business with a big supplier highlights just how hard it is for the world’s biggest tech company to find partners that are both reliable and do the right thing by their workers. The problem may be of its own making.
Pegatron will not get any new contracts after the Taipei-based company was found to have committed labour violations related to its student workers’ programme at factories in China. According to Apple, some were misclassified and allowed to do night shifts and overtime, in contravention of the Cupertino-based company’s rules, Bloomberg News reported...
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