17-10-2012 22:08
Cita:telegraph[/url]"] It added that the child workers were given a special worker ID number to differentiate them.
However, the children were put to work alongside adults and made to work overtime and night shifts.
When the programme asked one of the students how many days of rest they get a month, the response was: "Not even one".
The students said they were told by their teachers that if they refused to "intern" at Foxconn, they would not be able to graduate.
"I did transport work, helping them move goods," said one 14-year-old using the alias Xiao Wang.
"Right now, the night shift is 7.40pm until the morning. Whenever the work is done is when you get off your shift."
The Yantai factory has been under particular pressure after a fire last week in a Japanese plant making the new Nintendo console resulted in more orders being switched to China, said the Jinghua Daily, part of the People's Daily newspaper group.
"The workers are working against the clock to produce Nintendo Wii gamepads, as the company has been trying to catch up with its orders.
It is common for us to work overtime," said one of the students to Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency.
A spokesman for Foxconn said it had apologised to all the students and their parents. The local government said the 56 child workers had now been returned to classes.
"Foxconn is expanding its manufacturing ability on the mainland (China). The company co-operated with vocational schools, under the co-ordination of local authorities, to hire student interns to work in some of Foxconn's factories in order to solve occasional labour shortage problems," explained the Foxconn spokesman.
"Foxconn is carrying out a full investigation to determine how this happened and the actions that must be taken by our company to ensure that it can never happen again," he said.
He added that three per cent, or 36,000, of the company's 1.2 million-strong workforce were student interns.
Foxconn ha contratado a niños para sus líneas de producción. Encima no ha sido ningún desliz ya que les daban identificaciones especiales para diferenciarlos. Y para colmo les han obligado a trabajar al mismo nivel que los adultos.