“We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us.”

— CEO Tim Cook in 2012

        Apple was denounced numbers of labor violations during the past years as its products become popular in the world. Just yesterday, Apple announced its latest products – iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, but once again, Apple and its supplier Jabil Circuit are involved in this rumour. Jabil Circuit’s factory in Wuxi, China was accused with “hiring discrimination, overcrowding, poor training, mandatory overtime…” According to what Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said last year, the rumour spread out lately is inconsistent with what Apple’s Code of Conduct indicated and what Tim Cook said.

Apparently the workers were defending for their rights, even many of them claimed that overtimes were unpaid. The Jabil is certainly doing this violation for the sake of their benefits and profits. Workers in the Jabil forgo their break time in order to fulfill the tasks and increase the productivity. Or we can say, their overtime probably had some contributions on shifting iPhones release date earlier. It is definitely an exciting news for iPhone fans, but how many people would really concern about the “behind the scene”?

http://allthingsd.com/20130905/apple-investigating-worker-abuse-charges-at-iphone-c-supplier/