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Title: Apple details worker education improvements and more in latest Supplier Responsibility Report Post by: HCK on March 09, 2018, 04:05:22 pm Apple details worker education improvements and more in latest Supplier Responsibility Report
Apple has released its 2018 Supplier Responsibility Report, detailing the efforts of the companies that supply Apple with components and materials to behave as responsible corporate citizens. The report covers areas such as workers rights and education and the environmental impact of each supplier in the last year. We begin with the supplier workforce. In 2017, Apple and suppliers trained more than 3 million workers on their rights and local labor laws throughout the world. The company has also returned more than $1.9 million in excessive recruitment fees to 1,558 people who have been impacted by bonded labor. Apple has also launched a new health programming initiative that aims to train workers in preventative care and women's healthcare, with the goal of training a million women by 2020. In 2017, efforts to empower women through health education began at several of our supplier facilities in China and India. Our goal is to enable women in factories to take charge of their pers... Source: Apple details worker education improvements and more in latest Supplier Responsibility Report (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/EqCoyWL3ar4/apple-details-worker-education-improvements-and-more-latest-supplier-responsibility-report) |