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Apple is looking at its Apple Watch supply chain after a report released last week claimed that its maker had used trainees to complete the devices, according to the Financial Times. Sacom, a human rights group, claims that Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese Apple supplier, illegally employed students and forced them to work overtime and work nights with a day off a week . Sacom claims that Quanta exclusively manufactures Apple Watch Series 1, 2 and 4 watches and is the leading manufacturer of Series 3.
The group interviewed 28 high school students at the Quanta Computer plant in Chongqing, China, this summer. Most of them were between the ages of 16 and 18 and performed chores on the production line.
Students claim that their teachers told them they could not graduate on time without this work. A student specializing in auto repair told the group, "I told my teacher that I did not want to do this job. He then called my father and talked to him for over an hour. My dad then pressured me, so I had no choice but to come.
Sacom says that many of his students had nothing to do with electronics and they saw no benefit in this internship that involved assembling parts 12 hours a day, sometimes from 8pm to 8am. We contacted Apple to comment on the story, but in the meantime, the company issued a statement to the Financial Times and say:
"We are urgently studying the report that student interns added in September are working overtime and night shifts. We have a zero tolerance for non-compliance with our standards and we ensure prompt action and appropriate corrective action if we discover [supplier code] violations. "
We will update if we hear more from Apple.
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