It happened in December but has now transcended. Three employees of China's Foxconn factory were arrested for leaking details of the iPad tablet 2, three months before Apple unveiled its characteristics. The three employees have been formally charged with violation of secrecy. Cause After filtration, Foxconn suspected that came from the factory in Shenzhen where the tablet was assembled and arrested the three workers on 26 December.
Apple has a strict policy of secrecy about their projects and Foxconn was afraid of being penalized as a supplier by that filter manufacturers provided information that supplements on the thickness of the tablet and the location of the camera. The extreme pressure Foxconn subjecting their employees to keep secret the projects would be at the origin, at least one of the suicides in 2009 of one of its employees, Sun Danyong, who lost a prototype iPhone 4.
The employee reported the loss to his superiors and accused of having stolen saw. Posted enterprise belongings. Sun wrote messages to a friend reaffirming his innocence and describing the brutal investigation undertaken by the Safety Officer of the company on his person. The news coincides with the NGO report on working conditions in Chinese factories working for Apple.
At the factory in Chengdu, employees paid a total of 1,350 yuan (141 euros) per month for working 48 hours per week, equivalent to about 73 cents an hour. This leads to employees to work longer hours to earn more free money and to meet demand. The research gives a detailed picture of the lives of 500,000 workers from the factories of Shenzhen and Chengdu, two major plants in southern China owned by Foxconn, which produces millions of products from Apple each year.
The report accuses Foxconn to treat workers "inhumanely, and machines." Among the allegations made by workers interviewed by the NGOs allege that, despite a legal limit of 36 hours per month, a list showing that the worker had made 98 hours in a month extra. In addition, workers were pressured to take a day off in 13.
Not the unco case. In February this year, workers at a Chinese factory that supplies touch screens Apple approached the company to oversee the impact it has had the use of a poisonous material in the manufacture of this product to the U.S. firm. Wintek, the Taiwanese manufacturer that has facilities in China, used n-hexane between May 2008 and August 2009.
Its use was abandoned after it was discovered that caused serious health problems for workers. "He is a murderer, a murderer who strikes invisible" workers wrote a letter to the pattern of Apple, Steve Jobs.
Apple has a strict policy of secrecy about their projects and Foxconn was afraid of being penalized as a supplier by that filter manufacturers provided information that supplements on the thickness of the tablet and the location of the camera. The extreme pressure Foxconn subjecting their employees to keep secret the projects would be at the origin, at least one of the suicides in 2009 of one of its employees, Sun Danyong, who lost a prototype iPhone 4.
The employee reported the loss to his superiors and accused of having stolen saw. Posted enterprise belongings. Sun wrote messages to a friend reaffirming his innocence and describing the brutal investigation undertaken by the Safety Officer of the company on his person. The news coincides with the NGO report on working conditions in Chinese factories working for Apple.
At the factory in Chengdu, employees paid a total of 1,350 yuan (141 euros) per month for working 48 hours per week, equivalent to about 73 cents an hour. This leads to employees to work longer hours to earn more free money and to meet demand. The research gives a detailed picture of the lives of 500,000 workers from the factories of Shenzhen and Chengdu, two major plants in southern China owned by Foxconn, which produces millions of products from Apple each year.
The report accuses Foxconn to treat workers "inhumanely, and machines." Among the allegations made by workers interviewed by the NGOs allege that, despite a legal limit of 36 hours per month, a list showing that the worker had made 98 hours in a month extra. In addition, workers were pressured to take a day off in 13.
Not the unco case. In February this year, workers at a Chinese factory that supplies touch screens Apple approached the company to oversee the impact it has had the use of a poisonous material in the manufacture of this product to the U.S. firm. Wintek, the Taiwanese manufacturer that has facilities in China, used n-hexane between May 2008 and August 2009.
Its use was abandoned after it was discovered that caused serious health problems for workers. "He is a murderer, a murderer who strikes invisible" workers wrote a letter to the pattern of Apple, Steve Jobs.
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