Foxconn Audit Finds a Workweek Still Too Long
A new audit of Chinese Apple producer Foxconn found that the company has not reduced the average workweek to be within Chinese law. The workweek is supposed to be capped at 49 hours a week but the audit said it was still too high. The report also found that unions at the company are still dominated by management. Foxconn said that they had made progress, and were still looking to do more. Critics say that the group doing the auditing, which was paid for by Apple, is too lenient, and that they are missing problems that have been found by other investigators.
See "Foxconn Audit Finds a Workweek Still Too Long", Vindu Goel, The New York Times, May 16, 2013