Apple employees at the factory in China working in extremely difficult conditions that do not meet the standards established by the company, reports the BBC. Edition published the full list of detected violations.
The reporter who conducted covert investigation, he worked at a factory in Shanghai 18 days without a single day off, despite requests for time off. Other employees work shifts lasted for 12 hours or more. On the set of seen that exhausted workers fall asleep right in their jobs after exhausting twelve-hour shifts.
Another journalist, who also worked at the plant under cover, said his shifts lasted for 16 hours. "Every time I crawl to the hostel, I just could not move" he said.
Such conditions violate the standards that Apple itself has established in 2010 after its employees among a wave of suicides. In response, the company said it is making every effort to ensure fair and safe working conditions in their factories.
"We know that no other company is doing to ensure fair and safe working conditions as much as Apple. We work with suppliers to address deficiencies and see a continuous and significant improvement, but we know that our work will never end" - said in a statement Apple BBC.
Apple explains listed BBC pictures sleeping on workplace personnel common practice to take a nap during the break, and claims that the results of inspections over a million employees Pegatron, the work is on average about 55 hours a week instead of 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
In September, the Chinese supervisor and organization Green America revealed at the factory Catcher Technology 22 violations of working conditions. In particular, workers were forced to work without pay overtime, there have been improper handling of hazardous substances. And for reasons not completely understood, activists criticized for Apple, although the company acts only as a customer.
In the past year, Apple broke off relations with one of its suppliers, the Chinese company Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics, due to the fact that its factories use child labor.