Apple Responds to Labor Accusations

jlaxson writes "Back in June, a number of accusations were leveled at Apple regarding labor practices in its overseas manufacturing and assembly plants. At the time, Apple denied the allegations and said that it would launch an investigation. Today, the results of the investigation were released. From the report: 'We found the supplier to be in compliance in the majority of the areas audited. However, we did find violations to our Code of Conduct, as well as other areas for improvement that we are working with the supplier to address. What follows is a summary of what we've learned, what's already being done in response, and our commitment to future diligence and action.'"

Comments

Audits? What they had seen...

[RuBLed]

may not be what is really happening.

IMHO, most audits are scheduled and the management knows about it weeks or even months before the audit. This could buy the management "time" to "instruct" everyone about the audit and do some "beautification". This could also be the time "silence" and "hide" some people too. I'm not saying that the manufacturing facility was dishonest during the audit but given the location of the manufacturing facilities (China), I would not be suprised if they turned out to be dishonest. (who wants to lose a client anyway)

But I really hope that the results of the audit are honest and true for the sake of all those people working there. Minor improvements there could greatly help the welfare of the workers.

Re:Electronic Industry Code of Conduct

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

And it just so happens that the two best quality laptop builders are Apple and IBM (now Lenovo, not sure how things will change).

Apple doesn't build laptops - they have them made for them by Asustek (mostly), using cheap asian labour.

Interestingly, Asustek is not on the linked list.