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Foxconn Says Vocational Students Aren't Being 'Forced' To Work

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-is-is dept.

jones_supa writes "Foxconn has responded to the criticism regarding Chinese internship students being forced to work for them. In a statement to Washington Post, Foxconn said that its 'short-term internship program' is in line with Chinese labor laws and that interns comprise 2.7% of its labor force in China. Schools, not Foxconn, recruit students into the programs, the company said, and the programs are supervised by local government authorities and teachers assigned to monitor the students' work. Foxconn has also set up a hotline for interns and outlined procedures that allow them to resign from the program." Related, an anonymous reader pointed at an undercover report on working conditions at Foxconn.

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  1. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! by sribe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To think that the Chinese are using interns for free labor! How dare they copy a business technique used by US industries such as publishing and entertainment???