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30 May 2016

China: Investigation at abandoned Pegatron factory for iPhone productions finds "unacceptable" conditions at dormitories; includes company responses

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[Apple and Pegatron responses included]

…[T]he four [dormitory] blocks…housed migrant workers employed by Apple contractor Pegatron until they were hurriedly abandoned just over eight weeks ago. Six thousand employees lived in the dormitories at the peak of iPhone 6 production…Paid basic salaries of just under £250 a month for gruelling six-day weeks which they can increase by about £200 by working daily overtime…[R]ooms with up to 12 bunk beds for which each worker would be charged the equivalent of £16 a month, deducted from their pay packets…There is…lack of privacy in shared toilet blocks on each floor…