關注社會:蘋果富士康承諾改善勞工待遇

Apple Inc said on Thursday it had agreed to work with partner Foxconn to tackle wage and working condition violations at the factories that produce its popular products, Reuters reported.

路透社報道，蘋果公司週四宣佈已和合作公司富士康達成協議，一起解決生產蘋果熱銷產品工廠的工資以及工作條件違規問題。

Foxconn — which produces Apple devices ranging from the iPhone to the iPad — said it would reduce working hours to 49 hours per week, including overtime, while keeping its workers total compensation at its current level. To compensate for the reduction in hours, Foxconn will hire tens of thousands of additional workers.

富士康爲蘋果生產從iPhone手機到iPad平板電腦等產品，它表示將把包括加班在內的工時降至每週49小時，同時工人工資保持現有水平。爲了填補縮減的工時，富士康將再僱傭數萬名員工。

It also said it would build more housing and canteens to accommodate that influx.

該公司還說，將再建宿舍、食堂來容納更多的員工。

The agreement is a sign of the increasing power of Chinese workers to command higher wages.

該協議顯示出中國工人在要求漲薪方面權利越來越大。

The measures come in response to one of the largest investigations ever conducted of a U.S. company's operations abroad.

這些舉措是對一項調查做出的迴應，該調查也是美國公司海外工廠受到的最大調查之一。

Apple had agreed to the probe by the independent Fair Labor Association. The association, in disclosing its findings from a survey of three Foxconn plants and over 35,000 workers, said it had unearthed multiple violations of labor law, including extreme hours and unpaid overtime.

蘋果公司同意獨立機構——公平勞動協會對其進行調查。該協會公佈了對富士康三家工廠和35000餘名工人的調查結果，表示發現了諸多違反勞動法的行爲，包括超長勞動時間，加班沒有加班費。

The FLA audit had found that during peak production times, workers in the three factories put in more than 60 hours per week on average.

公平勞動協會的調查還發現，在生產高峯期，三個工廠的工人平均每週工作超過60個小時。