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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:03AM 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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Re:Sure, you can resign anytime you like, worker by na1led · 2012-09-12 04:35 · Score: 3, Funny

No one is forcing them to work. They have a choice, work or starve!

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Re:iPhone 5 by toriver · 2012-09-12 04:39 · Score: 3, Funny

Put it next to your Foxconn-made Cisco router and HP laptop to make a chorus.