Report: Underage Children Abused in Samsung Factories [Child Abuse]
A new report by a Chinese labor watchdog makes Apple's Foxconn woes look like a game of spin the bottle, Laptop Mag reports. Untreated injuries? Check. Dangerous workplace? Check. Hitting children and forcing them to stand? Check. This is bad. The report chronicles the inner workings of HEG Electronics, which manufactures gadgets on behalf of Samsung. Inside their factories? Kids under the age of 16, being worked like dogs until they bleed. See above. China Labor Watch says it was "stunned" by its contact with child workers and the findings of its investigators: Our research indicates that student laborers amount to 80% of the total workforce in the factory . During our follow up investigations, our investigators suspected that there were a large number of child laborers in other departments of the factory , estimating that there may be 50 to 100 children working there. These children were working under same harsh conditions as adult workers , but were paid only 70% of t...