Students in China are forced to work overtime, night shifts for Amazon

Tram Ho

A recent survey, reported by The Guardian , provided evidence that more than 1,000 children aged between 16 and 18 were hired as “trainees” at a Foxconn factory in Hengyang City. , in Hunan province, China.

Chinese factories are allowed to hire workers aged 16 and over to work, but children are not allowed to work at night and work overtime.

Học sinh tại Trung Quốc bị ép làm việc ngoài giờ, ca đêm cho Amazon - Ảnh 1.

The survey also shows that schools here are paid to provide students to factories, even teachers are required to encourage their students to work overtime.

“The night shift managers need to manage trainees and teachers more often, then report any unusual situations to help teachers to promptly persuade students to continue to work. night and overtime “, this is a note from the recent HR meeting at the factory, provided by the China Labor Watch.

The notes at this meeting also indicate that if these students refuse to work overtime, the teacher will apply on their behalf on their behalf.

Học sinh tại Trung Quốc bị ép làm việc ngoài giờ, ca đêm cho Amazon - Ảnh 2.

Xiao Fang, a 17-year-old student studying computer, started working for the Amazon Echo production line last month and was tasked with attaching protective films to about 3000 Echo Dot speakers every day.

She said at first teachers only did 8 hours a day and 5 days a week but in fact they had to work 10 hours a day (including two overtime hours) and 6 days a week.

“At first, I was still unfamiliar with the work in the factory, but now, after a month of work, I was reluctant to gradually adapt to everything here. However, constantly doing 10 hours a day really. is very tired, “said Xiao Fang.

Xiao said the teacher urged him to work overtime or it would affect graduation results as well as future scholarship opportunities.

“I tried to explain to my manager that I didn’t want to work overtime. But they told the teacher and we were told that if I didn’t work overtime, I wouldn’t be able to practice at Foxconn, dong. “When I influence the graduation results and scholarship applications at the school, I have no choice and can only continue to endure it,” Xiao added.

In an email sent to Business Insider , Foxconn admitted that the students here were illegally recruited and they would immediately take action to remedy the situation. However, the company still believes that the internship program is not just for students to gain practical work experience.

Foxconn said “we have doubled the monitoring and testing mechanism for trainee programs with each partner school, to ensure that in no case will the student be forced to do so. overtime or night shift There have been a few previous cases, due to the loose supervision of the on-site management team, of course the trainees will be paid for overtime hours. The past is unacceptable and we have immediately released solutions to make sure this will not happen again. ”

Amazon informed Business Insider that they “could not accept violations of the supplier’s production rules” and “urgently investigated these allegations, and resolved the incident with Foxconn at high level.” Best”. They also sent a group of experts to factories to investigate.

 

Share the news now

Source : Theo Vnreview