Agency workers' rights defenders in China, the National Labor Committee (NLC), this week released a report that mentions one of Microsoft's supplier factories in Guangdong province, China found to employ hundreds of workers, average age 16 and 17 years.
Reportedly, these underage workers worked in factories in the system during the 15-hour shifts, six or seven days a week. As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday (17/4/2010), the results of the report have been through the process of investigation for three years.
It was also mentioned, Microsoft has been violating human rights by treating his workers like a prisoner. They sleep and live in cramped dormitories and workers who are not groomed, and have to buy a meal and a mattress to sleep with their own money. Not only that, some female workers who claimed to have experienced sexual harassment by security guards.
The NLC report mentions, before the recession in the years 2007 and 2008, the factory employees named Kye is located at the factory 97 hours a week and worked for more than 80 hours.
"In 2009, the workers claimed to be in the factory for 83 hours a week and worked for 68 hours," said NLC spokesman.
The workers also claimed to be treated inhumanely and forbidden to speak, listen to music, or go to the toilet during working hours. For those who violate will be punishable by cleaning the bathroom.
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