Following numerous reports of child labor, including a recent report from workers’ rights advocacy group China Labor Watch, Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics supply giant that assembles numerous popular consumer devices from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, HP, Nintendo and others, has admitted to hiring intern laborers as young as age 14 to work at a plant in Yantai, China, assembling the Nintendo Wii U, Reuters reported. As Foxconn said in a statement reprinted by Reuters:
“Our investigation has shown that the interns in question, who ranged in age from 14 to 16, had worked in that campus for approximately three weeks…This is not only a violation of China’s labor law, it is also a violation of Foxconn policy and immediate steps have been taken to return the interns in question to their educational institutions.”
