Illustrationsbild: Personal vid en Foxconnfabrik i Shenzhen, södra Kina. (Kin Cheung / TT / NTB Scanpix)

Guardian: Skolungdomar tillverkar Alexa-enheter

Kinesiska skolungdomar – vissa så unga som 16 år – arbetar med att tillverka Amazons röstassistentenheter Alexa i underleverantören Foxconns fabriker i Kina. Det rapporterar The Guardian, som baserar sitt avslöjande på både intervjuer och läckta dokument.

Enligt tidningen har hundratals ungdomar rekryterats till fabrikerna som ”praktikanter” och tvingats arbeta övertid och nattskift, vilket strider mot kinesiska arbetsrättslagar.

Foxconn har erkänt att man olagligt haft studenter i personalstyrkan, men att man vidtagit åtgärder mot det.

Amazon uppger enligt tidningen att man nu utreder uppgifterna om Foxconn.

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Wikipedia (en)
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group and better known as Foxconn, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company with its headquarters in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. Today, it is the world's largest provider of electronics manufacturing services and the fourth-largest information technology company by revenue. The company is the largest private employer in Taiwan and one of the largest employers worldwide. Its founder and chairman is Terry Gou. Foxconn manufactures electronic products for major American, Canadian, Chinese, Finnish and Japanese companies. Notable products manufactured by Foxconn include the BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, Nintendo 3DS, Nokia devices, Xiaomi devices, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and the TR4 CPU socket on some motherboards. As of 2012, Foxconn factories manufactured an estimated 40% of all consumer electronics sold worldwide.Foxconn has been involved in several controversies. In 2010, following a series of employee suicides at its factory in Shenzhen, Foxconn was criticized by labour activists, who accused the company of providing low wages and allowing employees to work past legal overtime limits.
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