Opinion: Apple must ask why good help is so hard to find


Apple attracts the most criticism in the technology industry over labour and environmental standards. This partly reflects ever stricter rules that the company has imposed on its supply-chain partners. — Bloomberg

Apple Inc’s decision to suspend new business with a key supplier highlights just how hard it is for the world’s biggest tech company to find partners that are both reliable and do the right thing by their workers. The problem may be of its own making.

Pegatron Corp won’t get any new contracts after the Taipei-based company was found to have committed labour violations related to its student workers’ programme at factories in China. According to Apple, some were misclassified and allowed to do night shifts and overtime, in contravention of the Cupertino-based company’s rules, Bloomberg News reported.

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