"Investigation Of An Apple Supplier: Pegatron Kunshan Report In 2023" September 20, 2023

In the past, CLW has repeatedly discovered serious labor rights violations within Apple’s global supply chain. CLW’s July 2013 Report discovered violations in three of Pegatron’s factories in Shanghai and Suzhou, including forced overtime, excessive use of dispatch workers, lack of training and insurance, and workplace harassment. The same violations resurfaced during CLW’s Second Investigation in October, 2015 at Pegatron Shanghai...

Eight years later in June and July 2023, CLW sent an investigator to conduct fieldwork and interviews at Pegatron’s Kunshan factory (Pegaglobe). The factory is located in the Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone (KETD). It primarily produces the iPhone 15 Pro at the time of the investigation. CLW’s investigation found that issues in Pegatron’s Pegaglobe factory are consistent with those in Pegatron’s Suzhou and Shanghai factories.

What’s most concerning to CLW is that working conditions have not changed significantly in the factory for the past ten years. As did in the past, the recruitment of a large number of dispatch workers, forced overtime, workplace bullying, and sexual harassment are still found in the factory...

Pregnant female workers are indirectly rejected during the recruitment process...The age limit for hiring in the factory is between 18 and 42. Workers are not allowed to dye their hair or have tattoos...

Excessive overtime is normalized for both regular and dispatch workers. Monthly overtime reaches 84 hours during the low season and 97 hours during the peak season...

Workplace bullying is commonplace. Assembly line leaders insult and belittle production line workers on a daily basis...

CLW’s investigator witnessed and experienced numerous cases of sexual harassment...