Many companies struggle with paying
attention to their factory worker employees. They are the most mistreated staff
in companies; they are paid the lowest wages to do the most labor, they work in
horrible work conditions, they work long hours without breaks, they don’t receive
incentives and they don’t get promotions. However, they produce the product
that is being sold and they are giving all the unwanted work that the CEO’s won’t
do.
Worldwide
there are many different standard working hours. This hours refer to the amount
of hours one can work per day, per week, per month or per year. In many countries these hours
vary from 40-44 hours with the option to work about 16 hours of overtime. If
someone is forced or ask to work over 44 hours than it is against most labor
laws. So they don’t have to work the additional hours if they don’t want to.
In
China, there are factories that house workers for the Apple products. These
workers are being mistreated. They are working almost 12 hour shifts every day
to cumulate a minimum average of 55 hours per week. They receive an hour lunch
break which they spend a good amount of it sleeping because they are exhausted
from sitting or standing for about 5-6 hours straight. Then they are require to
finish their last part of their shift doing the same thing regardless if they
ate or not. Though they are receiving housing in the factories it’s still
unfair to workers because they are paying to live there. Not to mention they
still pay to also eat there. Outside of their job, the workers don’t have a
daily life. They are monitor by the higher staff when they aren’t working.
This
is cruel and unusual punishment for the workers at these factories. They are
living at their work place which don’t allow them to be free because they are
being monitor when they aren’t working. Image not being able to see your family
because you are working long hours to provide for them. That’s what these work
experience every week until they opt out. Which is kind of impossible because they
need to work in order to provide for their family.
