The commercial giant Amazon has pledged this Friday to investigate a complaint of labor abuse filed by an organization of activists against an associated Chinese company that allegedly or was blinding to work at night for children under 18.
The factory is used by the Taiwanese manufacturing company Foxconn to manufacture the well-known Kindle e-book, one of the company's flagship products, at the cost of overtime and night shifts among its young employees, in what constitutes a violation of the labor law from China.
Foxconn has initially corroborated this complaint and has promised an investigation.
"We are going to urgently investigate these allegations and speak with the Foxconn dome," an Amazon spokesman said in an email to the Thomson Reuters Foundation in which the company remarks that "it will not tolerate violations in its Supplier Code of Conduct."
The China Labor Watch NGO had found in a report the poor working conditions in the plant, located in the central city of Hengyang, and in what was the second negative assessment of the factory.
In addition to overtime, China Labor Group had denounced that one in five factory employees, 20%, had a fellowship contract ; a much higher proportion than allowed by Chinese laws.
Foxconn is the world's leading supplier of electronic products and has one million employees. So far, their own research has verified the information of the NGO and has promised a full review. It had previously been investigated in 2010 after several employees decided to take their own lives because of the subhuman working conditions.
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