According to an annual manufacturing report released by Apple, the company found 91 children working in 10 supplier factories in 2010. The number marks a pronounced jump over the year prior, when 11 children were discovered in factories that supply parts for the company’s gadgets.
Apple is requiring most of the factories to pay the cost of the educations for the employed minors. In one case, the company fired a contractor employing 42 under aged workers. 2010 also marked an increase in the number of factories checked by the company, from 102 in 2009 to 127 in 2010.
The increased scrutiny comes in the wake of a number a number of suicides amongst employees of major Apple supplier, Foxconn. Apple has also been called out for pollution amongst its Chinese suppliers.
The report also revealed that 137 employees were poisoned at one of its Chinese suppliers.
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