Amazon says that it’s investigating reports that its hardware supplier Foxconn, which produces Amazon Echo and Kindle hardware for the company, has violated labor laws by requiring teenaged workers to work overtime and night shifts, as reported by The Guardian.

The issue is specifically that the students — who are between the ages of 16 and 18 and are legally hired as “interns” — were working overtime and night shifts.

Chinese labor laws allow students over the age of 16 to work in factories, but they prohibit overtime and night shifts.

An account from China Labor Watch details the conditions at the factory further.

In addition to the extra shifts (which the students are said to be forced to work by teachers or else they’ll be fired), the report also notes that student intern workers receive lower wages and poorer benefits.

Foxconn acknowledged to The Guardian that there was an issue, saying, “there have been instances in the past where lax oversight on the part of the local management team has allowed this to happen and, while the impacted interns were paid the additional wages associated with these shifts, this is not acceptable and we have taken immediate steps to ensure it will not be repeated.”

In July, a 17-year-old high school student in China was sticking protective film over 3,000 Amazon Echo dots a day at the Foxconn factory in Hengyang.

“I tried telling the manager of my line that I didn’t want to work overtime,” the student, who went by the pseudonym Xiao Fang, told anonymous researchers who leaked their findings and transcripts of interviews with workers to Chinese Labor Watch.

“But the manager notified my teacher and the teacher said if I didn’t work overtime, I could not intern at Foxconn and that would affect my graduation and scholarship applications at the school.

I had no choice, I could only endure this.”

The China Labor Watch report, published on Thursday, covers a 2019 investigation into the Foxconn Hengang factory and the Guardian was allowed to review the underlying documents.

Among the report’s findings was the claim that high school students ages 16 through 18 across a number of schools were recruited to work at the factory, and teachers were tasked with pressuring the teens into working overtime or night shifts.

The report found schools providing interns to work night shifts at a Hengyang Foxconn plant, producing Amazon devices.

According to the report, kids who declined compulsory overtime were told by their teachers that it would affect their graduation from school.

Foxconn - which also assembles components for Apple devices, among others - peak period begins in July.

The report claimed it has hired 1,581 pupils from local technical colleges and is looking for more.

The pupils are said to be paid $248 a month to work 10 hours a day, six days a week.

Teachers, who get a $425 bonus from Foxconn, work with factory managers to pressure the pupils into working overtime and night shifts.

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