{"id":18967,"date":"2012-02-17T20:07:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2012-02-17T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:07:59","slug":"apple-auditor-worker-suicides-caused-in-part-by-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/02\/17\/apple-auditor-worker-suicides-caused-in-part-by-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Auditor: Worker Suicides Caused, in Part, by Boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"

After this week, my suggestion to Apple is string up anti-suicide netting in the building that houses the PR team. I mean seriously, between all the panicky rhetoric surrounding the Proview trademark case (no more iPads?!?) and now the labor audit shenanigans down at the Foxconn facility, the communications folks must be ready to plotz.<\/p>\n

I mean, this sounds just plain terrible<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Free Labor Association just began a detailed audit of Foxconn\u2019s\u00a0Apple production facilities this week, but the organization\u2019s head has already angered critics by issuing a positive statement about work conditions before his group\u2019s investigation is complete.<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0interview with Reuters published Wednesday, FLA President Aurent van Heerden said that the factory floor seemed \u201ctranquil,\u201d called physical conditions \u201cway, way above the average of the norm\u201d \u2014 and blamed \u201cboredom\u201d for many of workers\u2019 problems, including a rash of suicides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be fair, there is a more nuanced point that was made, and Mr. van Heerden was in no sense talking crazy. But you just can’t go around saying it that way, and I suspect he knows better. Keep in mind that his association has been criticized for not being sufficiently independent from Apple.<\/p>\n

Was he suffering from jet lag or something?<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Stan for China Hearsay<\/a>, 2012. |\nPermalink<\/a> |\n3 comments<\/a> |\nAdd to\ndel.icio.us<\/a>\n\nPost tags: \n<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After this week, my suggestion to Apple is string up anti-suicide netting in the building that houses the PR team. I mean seriously, between all the panicky rhetoric surrounding the Proview trademark case (no more iPads?!?) and now the labor audit shenanigans down at the Foxconn facility, the communications folks must be ready to plotz. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3542],"class_list":["post-18967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law","tag-short-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}