[FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]
Apple's Report Card
Findings from the firm's annual audit of its suppliers
- 62% weren't compliant with working-hours limits.
- 32% weren't compliant with hazardous-substance management practices.
- 35%failed to meet Apple's standards to prevent worker injuries.
(Source: Apple's report)
Apple Inc. is increasingly finding itself pinched between
the promise and perils of doing business in China.
Under pressure from activists in the U.S. and abroad, the
company released a 27-page report detailing working conditions throughout its
supply chain, which sprawls throughout Asia, but especially China.
The report is the most comprehensive on the subject in
Apple's history, based on 229 audits of factories that do work for the company,
the world's second-largest by market capitalization.
Apple said that at its direction, suppliers have stopped
discriminatory screenings for medical conditions or pregnancy. Apple also said
it found 112 facilities that weren't properly storing, moving or handling
hazardous chemicals.
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