This quotation taken FROM the article YOU linked to shows your statement is ENTIRELY FALSE!
In 2013, it audited 451 different facilities in 16 countries, and found 23 people who had been hired when they were younger than 16. Eleven were still underage at the time of the audit. In all of its publicly available audits, from 2006 to 2013, the company has found 349 child laborers.What happens after they are found?
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Forty-two of them (under age workers — Swordmaker) were found at a single facility in China that had partnered with a vocational school which forged hiring papers. You can see how it drove up the numbers in the chart above. Apple promptly stopped doing business with the company and reported it to the government.
The article says that there are over 1.5 million workers at these companies and there were a total of 349 under age workers discovered between 2008 and 2013. All of which were apparently using forged paperwork. WOW! What a problem. That is 0.00000233% of Apple's work force.
It is obvious you did not even bother to read that article. Notice that Apple stopped doing business with the contract company that had employed 42 underage workers. What it does NOT say is that company lost a $2 Billion contract because they violated their contract with Apple. Does that look like "Apple accepts it's suppliers working 16 year olds in a factory environment" that you claimed? Your statement was a bald lie. Apple does NOT, and your article boldly provides proof they do not and even shows they will even take costly steps to prevent it.
You anti-Apple haters will believe the MYTHS promulgated by the main stream media over the actual facts. Even your article got some of the facts wrong. . . claiming it was the suicides in 2010 that caused Apple to start doing this, but Apple had their program in place since 2003, when they first started doing business in China. Incidentally, not one of those suicides involved a worker on an Apple assembly line. . . they were working on Microsoft Xboxes, HP computers, Nokia phones, and Sony playstation, and the rate of suicide among all of FoxConn's 750,000 workers was a mere 0.25 workers were 100,000 per year. One eighth the rate of suicides among young people of the same ages in American Ivy League Universities in the same year. It was 1/4 the over all Chinese suicide rate for the same age cohort. The over all American suicide rate is 11 per 100,000 per year. WHAT were people complaining about except a created hyperbolic, manufactured FUD campaign against Apple. . . which ignored all sane facts.
When Apple finds an underage worker, their contract with the supplier requires the employer to offer that worker a full college and university education while still paying them until age 25. . . and they do not have to work while doing the education. Strangely only 34% of the underage workers accepts this great offer.
So YOU don't know what you are talking about and Apple does NOT accept any such thing. YOU hoist yourself on your own petard and provided your own evidence against your claim! Thank you for saving me the trouble of posting it. That is hilarious. Enough said.