Beijing sources have added that according to sources, students in the age group 17-19 were hired as interns in September and were told to work at the assembling unit in Zhengzhou, China, to work for three months to get "work experience in order to graduate". Accordingly "The work has nothing to do with our studies. We are being forced by our school to work here," Yang who assembles 1,200 iPhone X cameras a day was quoted as saying in the report.
Meanwhile she is among a group of 3,000 students from Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School who are working at a local Foxconn facility. The report added "Apple and Foxconn acknowledged they had discovered cases of student interns working overtime and said they were taking remedial action. But both companies said the students were working voluntarily”.
According to Foxconn, its internship programme was
"carried out in co-operation with local governments and a number of
vocational schools in China" and three other Foxconn plants in China were
found to be in breach of numerous health and safety regulations, exceeding
working hours, five years ago.
