{"id":31580,"date":"2014-07-14T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=31580"},"modified":"2014-07-14T07:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T07:50:55","slug":"samsung-finds-china-child-labour-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=31580","title":{"rendered":"Samsung finds China child labour &#8216;evidence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Samsung Electronics said it has found &#8220;evidence of suspected child labour&#8221; at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics.<\/p>\n<p>The firm conducted an investigation into the supplier after New York-based campaign group, China Labor Watch, accused it of hiring children.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean firm has &#8220;temporarily&#8221; suspended business with the supplier following the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung said that Chinese authorities were also looking into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the investigations conclude that the supplier indeed hired children illegally, Samsung will permanently halt business with the supplier in accordance with its zero tolerance policy on child labour,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/global.samsungtomorrow.com\/?p=38650\">the company said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Furthermore, Samsung will strengthen its hiring process not only at its production facilities but also at its suppliers to prevent such case from reoccurring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Samsung said it had conducted three audits on the Dongguan Shinyang Electronics since 2013, with the latest one ending on 25 June this year.<\/p>\n<p>But it added that &#8220;no cases of child labour were found during these audits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, it launched a subsequent investigation following the allegations by China Labor Watch and &#8220;found evidences of illegal hiring process that took place on June 29&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Samsung has reported finding evidence of underage workers at its suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>There is no comment from Dongguan Shinyang Electronics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics said it has found &#8220;evidence of suspected child labour&#8221; at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics. The firm conducted an investigation into the supplier after New York-based campaign group, China Labor Watch, accused it of hiring children. The South Korean firm has &#8220;temporarily&#8221; suspended business with the supplier following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-31580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}