Samsung employs child labor in China?

Beijing Time December 3 Evening News, the U.S. labor rights group, "China Labour Watch" (Labor Watch) announced in Wednesday, and found new evidence that Samsung supply to the Sea of electronics (HEG Electronics) hired Chengdu City construction workers in the technical School of Labor and student workers.

The evidence includes recordings of direct interviews with these young workers, Chinese Labor Watch said. The student workers said they worked 10 hours a day, sometimes without a day's rest, and thus deducted wages.

On the July 10 of this year, China Labor Watch released a survey that said Samsung Chinese suppliers employ child labor. Samsung then contacted China Labor Watch via e-mail and telephone, saying it would be possible to notify Samsung of similar reports in the future.

In August this year, China's Labour watch released another report saying that the Guangdong company, a factory that supplies Samsung, is employing child labor in the state of Hagrid. On August 21, China's labor watch provided Samsung with a list of 117 student workers and 14 child labourers.

Samsung responded to Chinese labor watch on August 25, according to Samsung, which showed that it did not appear to have been among the students and child workers. August 27, China Labor Watch again issued a report, confirmed that the Haitian electronics is the employment of students and child labor.

September 28, the Haitian State electronic prosecution of Chinese labor observation. October 9, Samsung told China's Labor watch, said that Hagrid electronics in May 2014 did hire some student workers from Chengdu, but found that some students under the age of 16 or later, did not allow them to work in the factory.

November 4, China Labor Watch confirmed that all 9 child labourers from the Chengdu City Construction Technician School were hired by the Haitian electronics company to produce mobile phones for Samsung.

According to the interview Records and recordings, the Chengdu Urban Construction Technician School sent more than 200 students to the Haitian National Electronics department from May 28 to August 31 this year, some of them less than 16 years of age. They work 10 hours a day and work 6 to 7 days a week.

Schools give students 100 yuan a week (about 16 dollars) of grants, and the student's wages are kept by the school before completing the work at Hagrid Electronics. After deducting the relevant costs (including tuition fees, accommodation, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses), the school will send the wages to the students.

"We did not assign students to any factory," said the representative of the Chengdu Urban Construction Technician School in Wednesday. ”