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Apple made zero-profit deal with Foxconn, say activists

...rights activist group, which has linked the factory's poor wages and working conditions with a number of young worker suicides. Apple, the world's... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Mahesh Sharma

Sony and Nokia voice Foxconn concerns

...factory, Sony and Nokia have taken steps to investigate the plant's working conditions Read more

1 June, 2010 by Erica Ogg

Cook: Apple takes working conditions seriously

...Apple chief executive Tim Cook has addressed recent criticism and debate over working conditions in Apple's supply chain, insisting that the company takes the... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Rachel King

Apple begins labour checks at Foxconn plants

The iPad maker has called upon the Fair Labor Association to inspect working conditions at factories owned by its supplier Foxconn in China Read more

14 February, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Workers protest at Foxconn plant in China

...a month after the two firms announced a landmark agreement on improving working conditions, and in a repeat of an incident in January. In a... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Ryan Huang

Companies Must BCDR Their Employees

...to many of those local residents and workers will likely consider disastrous working conditions. So corporations are looking at alternative options to ensure business keeps... Read more

4 April, 2012

Apple, Google and Amazon top 'Most Admired' list

...no sign of a backlash against Apple's well-publicised problems with working conditions (and worker suicides) in its Chinese factories, operated by Foxconn. However... Read more

8 March, 2012

Apple: Suppliers still need to clean up their act

...in 2011 compared to 2010. Apple has released its latest report into working conditions at its suppliers' factories. Image credit: Apple In its report (PDF... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Josh Lowensohn

Microsoft investigates suicide threat at Xbox factory

...the worker protest was related to staffing assignments and transfer policies, not working conditions," a Microsoft representative told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News... Read more

12 January, 2012 by Steven Musil

Photos: Codebreaking Bletchley Park gets £4.6m lottery grant

...they were cold in the winter and hot in the summer. "The working conditions were by today's standards pretty crude but the people who... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Apple bars smartphone-criticising game from App Store

...and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (Sacom), a group set up to improve working conditions at outsourcing firms such as Apple partner Foxconn, which suffered a... Read more

15 September, 2011

Apple manufacturer criticised in undercover report

...which contains the findings of a four-month investigation to explore the working conditions at the Foxconn factories, where 17 workers have committed suicide this... Read more

14 October, 2010 by Mahesh Sharma

Scotland opens forensic science centre

...Police. Tom Nelson, director of SPSA Forensic Services, described the Bell Street working conditions as "cramped". "For years our forensic science experts have been working... Read more

7 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner
clouder 3.2.8

clouder 3.2.8

...cloud computing package solution based on virtual reality technology. It offers mobile working conditions, whenever and wherever the same as PC condition through cloud computing... Read more

4 March, 2012
Eurofound News 1.1

Eurofound News 1.1

...Safari.About EurofoundEurofound (the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) was set up to contribute to the planning and design of... Read more

26 January, 2012

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