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Nintendo investigating Wii U manufacturer Foxconn for using illegal child labour
Nintendo is investigating Wii U manufacturer Foxconn after it admitted to using child workers in a Chinese factory.Foxconn confessed to illegally hiring the workers, some as young as 14, to cover a shortfall in its regular staff during Wii U production. Chinese law states the legal working age as 16.”Our investigation has shown that the interns in question, who ranged in age from 14 to 16, had worked in that campus for approximately three weeks,” Foxconn admitted in a statement to Reuters.Read more…
