IPod 'slave' claims investigated
Apple is investigating a newspaper report that staff in some of its Chinese iPod factories work long hours for low pay and in "slave" conditions. The article in the Mail on Sunday alleged that workers received as little as $50 a month, doing 15-hour shifts making the iconic mp3 player. Apple said it did not tolerate its supplier code of conduct being broken.
See "IPod 'slave' claims investigated", BBC News, BBC News Online, June 13, 2006