Friday, June 16, 2006

Apple Looking Into iPod Plant's Labor Conditions

Due to claims of poor working conditions at a Chinese iPod factory, Apple is investigating the plant.

The report, first made in UK newspaper, the Mail, this past Sunday, includes charges that workers are paid as little as $50 a month to work 15 hour shifts making iPods.

Last November, Apple adopted a code of conduct for its suppliers which they say is modeled after The Electronic Industry Code of Conduct and other labor standards.

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