[PDF] Something's Not Right Here: Poor Working Conditions Per sist at Apple Supplier Pegatron
CLW believes that if Apple institutes the following measures throughout all of its suppliers, it will have taken a significant step toward improving workers’ conditions:
- The specific amount of social insurance paid to workers should be transparent to them, included on their pay stubs and available when workers make inquiries to the company;
- Factories should provide all mandatory insurance in full, including the housing fund;
- Factories should restrict the hiring of temporary (or dispatch) labor at a given factory to no more than 10% of the workforce, in compliance with Chinese law;
- Workers should not be made to work without corresponding pay;
- The base wage rate should be increased significantly above the local minimu m wage so that workers do not need to depend on overtime to make a living;
- Worker housing should be hygienic and more spacious;
- Pre - job safety training should last for at least 24 hours, as required by law, and workers should be taught specifically what chemicals and hazards they will encounter in their positions and how to mitigate health risks;
- All workers should receive appropriate protective equipment and be taught how to properly use it before beginning work;
- Industrial processes should be adjusted to allow workers a chance to both stand and sit or lean while they work;
- Factories should ensure that workers have pre - job, on - the - job, and pre - resignation physical exams, as required by law, for which the factory pays for all fees;
- Let workers elect enterp rise - level union representatives that can actually represent worker interests....