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When they don’t have enough space in the classrooms or dormitories, they force students out to do internships and then let the new students stay in our dorms. » Another 16 year old intern said: « If we refused, we would not be able to get our graduation certificates. Also, our dining and accommodation subsidies would be cancelled. » Undercover research and interviews at Quanta’s Chongqing factory, which took place in late 2016 and mid 2017, alleged that interns were working 12 hour days for months at a time without a day off. Students had also been hired illegally through recruitment agencies and paid illegal deposits to the recruitment agencies or their own universities to « secure » the internship, said Sacom. 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Of nine students interviewed by Sacom, only four were studying electronics. The others had majors ranging from accounting to coque samsung a6 silicone early education, hotel management, costume design, and automobile repair. Even electrical engineering students said work on the production coque huawei p10 light lines was unrelated to their studies. « Yes, I do study electronics, but what can I learn from merely inserting screws all day for three months » one intern said. coque iphone « I learned nothing here, » said an intern studying costume design. « After leaving Quanta we’ll be sent to a factory for repairing automobiles. » A year after the 2012 coque huawei p9 amazone claims about students on forced internships at Foxconn, it was alleged that students were being forced to assemble Sony’s Playstation 4, or risk failing their course. One third of the entire city’s exports is now in notebook computers, and over half of the world’s top 500 companies operate out of the city. But researchers say weaker law enforcement and labour monitoring by civil society in inland China compared to coastal China, from where many electronics companies have relocated means that labour abuses are able to go largely unchecked.

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