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Group accuses Apple suppler of violating worker rights

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Biel Crystal Manufactory, a Hong-Kong based company that makes screens for Apple is purportedly violating workers’ rights at its Chinese factories, reports “Reuters” (http://tinyurl.com/m5rdgt4).

The Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) report said Biel Crystal, which makes iPhone screens, requires its employees to work 11-hour shifts, seven days a week, with only one day off each month. SACOM is a a Hong Kong rights group.

Employees are also often injured and not given reasonable compensation and have to sign blank contracts, the group says. Biel Crystal hasn’t commented.

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